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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:25:42 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous 	releases also affected according to others)
Message-ID:  <4AD5B536.5030507@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730910131057i71db846et1f0d4aeadef5e302@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <E316139E-FFCF-432F-8DCE-62B120C38E55@exscape.org> <CC16B639-7A75-4016-A8A8-5C59E9CD5E95@exscape.org>	<hb1qs0$qjd$1@ger.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910131406340.26071@fledge.watson.org>	<9bbcef730910130633w150571a0k461fb4e67a51fb1d@mail.gmail.com> <B5BA3ACC-BC06-4042-8434-0D9395A0F478@freebsd.org>	<hb23i7$opq$1@ger.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910130957540.26159@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <9bbcef730910131057i71db846et1f0d4aeadef5e302@mail.gmail.com>

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Ivan Voras wrote:
> 2009/10/13 Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>:
> 
>>>>> note huge packet loss. It looks like it's VM fault or something like it.
>>>> It sounds like the VM is failing to execute the guest during certain
>>>> types of I/O. A bit of scheduler tracing in the host OS probably wouldn't go
>>>> amiss to confirm that the VM really is suspending the guest
>>> It's VMWare ESXi underneath, which is *Officially Not Linux* though some
>>> ducks may disagree - anyway, I suspect tracing the host in this way is next
>>> to impossible without some kind of diamondium-level contract.
>>>
>> What information do you need?  I have a platinum VMWare contract.
>>
>> What version of ESXi?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It is ESXi 3.5 - but if the problem is really in ESXi I presume anyone
> could reproduce it. My setup is nothing special - Xeon 5405, 8 GB RAM,
> SATA drives on ICH9.

I recall others having various weird problems in 3.5 that went away when 
they upgraded to 4.0.

Kris



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