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Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Mike Tkachuk <mike@tkachuk.name>
Subject: Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0
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on 22/03/2012 17:33 Volodymyr Kostyrko said the following:
> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 22/03/2012 15:19 Mike Tkachuk said the following:
>>> kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0
>>
>> It might make sense to try 1 here.
>> Also you could attempt to involve mav@ directly - here is an author of the code
>> and an expert on it.
> 
> Better ask before setting as this doubles hpet0 (with HPET) or cpu0:timer (with
> LAPIC) interrupt rate for me.

Does it make your system unusable?
Are you comparing with pre-eventtimers version of FreeBSD?

-- 
Andriy Gapon