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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash
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> On Thursday 29 March 2012 17:49:30 Joe Greco wrote:
> > > On Thursday 29 March 2012 15:42:42 Joe Greco wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash?
> > 
> > We've only seen it happen on one virtual machine.  That was a 32-bit
> > version.  And it's not so much a crash as it is a "disk I/O hang".
> 
> It almost sounds like the lost interrupt issue I've seen with USB EHCI 
> devices, though disk I/O should have a retry timeout?

That doesn't seem to fit.  Why would a perfectly functional VM suddenly
develop this problem when given a slow underlying datastore (fits so far)
but then the problem *remains* when returned to a fast local datastore,
even on a different host and architecture?  And why wouldn't the other
VM's running alongside develop the same problem?

> What does "wmstat -i" output?

No idea, we reloaded the VM months ago.

... JG
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