From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 10 18:03:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2F11065670; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:03:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f224.google.com (mail-fx0-f224.google.com [209.85.220.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D638FC1A; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm24 with SMTP id 24so293360fxm.3 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:03:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type; bh=ILeZE0pAcZgN1NuEZ9f1xxhqFECs0jwRUlHpY3gSQE8=; b=S2ak9MnlOeEaGJ2sB5lpyE6IDGoj3iwLjYkb7ShYjonLqs8MMYnYbTAwew5qtyeQVD fqtxI9IBcGPobep4zng1ejB889sKeEzdxsJSGSVrO+EYeQtXuoCSHHLAtQ/HVdl8R6fq RJ3b5HT0UOfvG2lW0ZQ0LwmXyzWo7AJCy4vGQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; b=NvkfdzDy1OY6GFjBJNeH34yj9y207q0ZtvtlgSJ6Ndb3dbogtZC/n7witZjzpzHd3W mcJt2HnvbtGIDOfIkNcXAzZ6eBp0zJQ2YQeZjS4NCbFwh4YV3hEWd0CLXzpoXMoxnEOm hEbCLLqA/uxN5gMhvVnvOIrS2buvVx9HKGolQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: ivoras@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.87.194 with SMTP id y44mr311778wee.157.1265825005201; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:03:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B72E93C.80102@icyb.net.ua> References: <4B72D94A.8030509@icyb.net.ua> <4B72E93C.80102@icyb.net.ua> From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:03:05 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: e40ea41441270bf6 Message-ID: <9bbcef731002101003r203f5189xf139700a0d48afa0@mail.gmail.com> To: Andriy Gapon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 & AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:03:27 -0000 On 10 February 2010 18:13, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 10/02/2010 19:05 Ivan Voras said the following: >> On 02/10/10 17:05, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> Wild guess - try disabling superpages in the guests. >> >> It looks like your guess is perfectly correct :) The guest has been >> doing buildworlds for an hour and it works fine. Thanks! >> >> It's strange how this doesn't affect the Xeons... > > I really can not tell more but there seems to be an issue between our > implementation of superpages (very unique) and AMD processors from 10h family. > I'd recommend not using superpages feature with those processors for time being. When you say "very unique" is it in the "it is not Linux or Windows" sense or do we do something nonstandard?