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[195.114.96.64]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p57sm17018129eei.8.2012.03.22.06.19.36 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:19:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:19:34 +0200 From: Mike Tkachuk X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1977769407.20120322151934@tkachuk.name> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQktRZX6TriAVd4jz53efnMoYG3Qm+DAGzR1I/2RF6ixuIiN4bHLu/cMO/K4XLJLE1Bt/eL1 Subject: Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mike Tkachuk List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:19:41 -0000 Hello Ian, I'm also facing same problem, just updated to esxi 5 update1, will see if it changes anything. It really looks like an esxi problem but I did not experienced it with FreeBSD 8 Here is the output of requested commands: sysctl kern.timecounter kern.timecounter.tick: 1 kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0) ACPI-fast(900) HPET(950) dummy(-1000000) kern.timecounter.hardware: HPET kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 1217640570 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 14318180 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.mask: 16777215 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.counter: 708780 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.frequency: 3579545 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.quality: 900 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 14912 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.mask: 4294967295 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.counter: 1849391829 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.frequency: 3411483000 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.quality: -100 kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 1 sysctl kern.eventtimer kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(600) i8254(100) RTC(0) kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.flags: 7 kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency: 33000086 kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality: 600 kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.flags: 1 kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.frequency: 1193182 kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.quality: 100 kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.flags: 17 kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.frequency: 32768 kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.quality: 0 kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0 kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC kern.eventtimer.idletick: 0 kern.eventtimer.singlemul: 4 vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 192 0 irq15: ata1 17 0 irq18: em0 3519101 2 cpu0:timer 92428991 63 irq256: mpt0 1887875 1 cpu2:timer 29982105 20 cpu1:timer 46249642 31 cpu3:timer 15983874 10 cpu6:timer 4721414 3 cpu7:timer 4554357 3 cpu4:timer 8397088 5 cpu5:timer 6163947 4 Total 213888603 146 ----- near 10 sec later ----- sysctl kern.timecounter kern.timecounter.tick: 1 kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0) ACPI-fast(900) HPET(950) dummy(-1000000) kern.timecounter.hardware: HPET kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 1217640570 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 14318180 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.mask: 16777215 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.counter: 802778 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.frequency: 3579545 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.quality: 900 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 24402 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.mask: 4294967295 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.counter: 3853372129 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.frequency: 3411483000 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.quality: -100 kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 1 sysctl kern.eventtimer kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(600) i8254(100) RTC(0) kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.flags: 7 kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency: 33000086 kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality: 600 kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.flags: 1 kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.frequency: 1193182 kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.quality: 100 kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.flags: 17 kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.frequency: 32768 kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.quality: 0 kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0 kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC kern.eventtimer.idletick: 0 kern.eventtimer.singlemul: 4 vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 192 0 irq15: ata1 17 0 irq18: em0 3519133 2 cpu0:timer 92429487 63 irq256: mpt0 1887875 1 cpu2:timer 29983186 20 cpu1:timer 46250719 31 cpu3:timer 15983969 10 cpu6:timer 4721451 3 cpu7:timer 4554394 3 cpu4:timer 8397125 5 cpu5:timer 6164274 4 Total 213891822 146 -- Best regards, Mike mailto:mike@tkachuk.name