From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 15 17:07:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0392106564A for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:07:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nonesuch@longcount.org) Received: from mail-qa0-f47.google.com (mail-qa0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750BB8FC0A for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadc11 with SMTP id c11so673051qad.13 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:message-id:cc:x-mailer:from:subject:date:to :x-gm-message-state; bh=l9U1odndCWJvQVqP4KmSwt6Zx4Bh/b5/OhN58Vabsl0=; b=JMLYGfWdUr9x8lTnePe0Vedf2rqIImzrQVcUsOgdpFILS5VjmM28yGXSGDX5HKLMqx brXbYCymfMlE8e+MBN+5E5Zss6Erwao5AaZYydS3bBmOTgQgNeh3NX5K7r8jk0s47ICF QzSGmYNeyqzI0guquwO6/BZc3TcXEqFnnhrjRaTjpXW+1gho/FIBZ6osmh+2yEZW5Z7o GiVIFLR533P0dqm3jZDM7u1cifC9xcF6oUd51e0qtktKkSVPAdGgJ+q9SJh1lhMBAlgk PkMRtydJaJPmhbdQi0qZy9dJZ0ODJYG65s4+P8M7TGCulh5iTDwON+2vvB3YhJ0jqR3B JHrA== Received: by 10.224.42.78 with SMTP id r14mr15945023qae.19.1347728852483; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.11.108] (ool-182c6d68.dyn.optonline.net. [24.44.109.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ha5sm7333389qab.1.2012.09.15.10.07.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT) References: <201205311157.42909.jhb@freebsd.org> <19d73256-b7c6-417e-a051-a5faeabf219d@email.android.com> <201209121520.26337.jhb@freebsd.org> <5051F7A0.90901@FreeBSD.org> <20120913162815.GA1219@pix.net> <50524C67.3040403@FreeBSD.org> <66357a32-b570-4dc3-a27c-d32903da41db@email.android.com> <9566CAD6-AD55-4BC5-B9B0-92C15949A63B@longcount.org> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <6C389C71-9762-4E02-A590-EB17359052EC@longcount.org> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (9B206) From: Mark Saad Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:07:28 -0400 To: Mark Felder X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnN4wfulS2xfECJa0CbigwyZ0ka42u0ZxrEPiFlalmAijv2UgdJoZIPqrrX42hnScKlrQuH Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:07:39 -0000 On Sep 15, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:37:40 -0500, Mark Saad wro= te: >=20 >> How do you have suj on 8.3 ? Are you using a patch ? >=20 > I don't have suj on 8.3 I misread the prior emails=20 >=20 >> Also can you retest 9 with the following sysctlkern.timecounter.hardware=3D= Acpi-fast >=20 > Yes, I'll attempt that as soon as possible. We're under a tight deadline t= o migrate critical resources off of VMWare now so I don't know how soon I ca= n test. >=20 >> Also in esxi what setup options do you have for the vm's ? >=20 > I'm not sure what ones I have off the top of my head, but VMWare support h= as previously poured over ever option to make sure nothing was misconfigured= . >=20 It's not that I doubt that , in my experience their support is not equipped t= o answer questions that don't start with " in my windows vm I have this issu= e ..."=20 >> Lastly do you have esxi setup to talk to a ntp server ? If so can you con= firm that it's working ? I mean the esxi host not the vm . >=20 > Yes, and yes. We've got a reliable NTP infrastructure at work and ESXi is d= efinitely using it. Just checking this can cause odd issues .=20 What hardware is the esxi host server ? What are you using for the vm disks?= Is the storage pool on local disks , iscsi , fiber channel , or nfs . =20 --- Mark saad | mark.saad@longcount.org