From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Feb 25 20:19:53 2011
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9F4106566B
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:19:53 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from kevin.wilcox@gmail.com)
Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com
	[209.85.213.182])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA7C8FC12
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:19:53 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by yxl31 with SMTP id 31so999429yxl.13
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:19:52 -0800 (PST)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
	h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date
	:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type;
	bh=vJAk7MRY4QZjnurltO3YqGbBXJvBl6/qheTHZGPxntk=;
	b=VtozTgWBbzC+EQIoa0mHL3jj7iagAl+lU2hhIJgjtvyYNfQOdBUkNII4z7Uc4YUZ2B
	GRCbI2nU+2FhdIEhFoasTC4u0VIWX/Lag7R2gAmM3akbW6WU5CxwKARTHfQfMYjFb3ZP
	yKr6cgEf0wgCnH09XxGlRPBWE3Cih0IMywJMg=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
	h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to
	:content-type;
	b=uSncvbE1191Uxep8FzdKcsOh+nzp+YUvlnXZnpwAXSjVgVPiwubsPQAtos1UANmRmF
	RbFSQhJFf03OfpW5EfLW5tBn+1OoEOu5ut699b6iLbm36glLP6cb1RblhFjm/iDztwH1
	eIztO2uSQu81DjdfaOlbhHPi7IGACohye4tUs=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.90.7.9 with SMTP id 9mr4289114agg.109.1298665192639; Fri, 25
	Feb 2011 12:19:52 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.90.80.12 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:19:52 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <op.vrgzxrj034t2sn@tech304>
References: <op.vrgzxrj034t2sn@tech304>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:19:52 -0500
Message-ID: <AANLkTin9ifaUNuMNCAxcGkCjgryKZ2Cpf3W2kKO2+voZ@mail.gmail.com>
From: Kevin Wilcox <kevin.wilcox@gmail.com>
To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Subject: Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:19:53 -0000

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:52, Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> wrote:

> The ones that crash are usually our main webservers (Apache, PHP, no MySQL
> locally though). We have LOTS of IPs on them and they do a ton of network
> traffic, but usually don't have a super high load average (maybe .75 - 1.0
> on a normal day?). Currently we're running 8.1-RELEASE on them.

Just as a note regarding that load average and ESX.

I've noticed that none of my FreeBSD VMs report a *true* load average
on ESX. The CPU hardly ever spikes (particularly on some snort
listeners) but ESX shows the VMs as being CPU-bound the better part of
the day. You may want to take a look at what the ESX performance
charts are showing during your heavy usage periods and particularly
before things go pear-shaped.

kmw