From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 7 05:55:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9AA21065670 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 05:55:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdq@peterk.org) Received: from poshta.pknet.net (poshta.pknet.net [216.241.167.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A69F8FC17 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 05:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 38115 invoked by uid 89); 7 May 2010 05:55:01 -0000 Received: from poshta.pknet.net (HELO pop.pknet.net) (216.241.167.213) by poshta.pknet.net with SMTP; 7 May 2010 05:55:01 -0000 Received: from 216.241.170.11 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fbsdq@peterk.org) by pop.pknet.net with HTTP; Thu, 6 May 2010 23:55:01 -0600 Message-ID: <0e6d2f091a02dcd04a6682f4c9b55490.squirrel@pop.pknet.net> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 23:55:01 -0600 From: "Peter" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.20-RC2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: panic: spin lock held too long 8.0-STABLE r207638 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 05:55:02 -0000 iH, Got a system that whenever I launch another Virtualbox instance, it will panic anywhere from 10 minutes to several days. I was able to get this system to panic constantly yesterday by trying to install Windows 2008, or after it was eventually installed, it only ran for ~45 minutes before panic. Some installs panic at around 2% done, most at ~80% and one actually completed. Trying to figure out if it's my hardware or what. I used to have a Windows XP VM running alongside, and the panics happened about once a week - eventually I got lazy and didn't start the XP VM. [less load and no swap usage, and no panics for 1.5 months until yesterday] Yesterday I tried to install Windows 2008, and in the ~6 hours I was messing around, it panicked around 8 times [after random amounts of time] panic: spin lock held too long [cpuid either 2,3, or 4 as far as I remember] 4GB of RAM AMD X4 CPU 8.0-STABLE r207638 amd64 vbox 3.1.6 mostly GENERIC kernel [sched_ule], with firewall/altq compiled in and unneccessary hardware removed from kernel config. With just one VM [FreeBSD 8-stable, 2 CPU 2GB RAM] the system runs fine for months. [it's also a file/print server] As soon as I try to get a Windows VM running on there, and it starts using some swap, anywhere from 20MB to 150MB it eventually panics [usually within an hour or so]. Any ideas ? hardware issues? Anyone successfull in running several VMs on FreeBSD -> VirtualBox ? [overloading it?] ]Peter[