From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 22:36:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2CC106564A; Thu, 24 May 2012 22:36:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from mx1.sbone.de (bird.sbone.de [46.4.1.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF608FC0A; Thu, 24 May 2012 22:36:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.sbone.de (mail.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59B5325D385D; Thu, 24 May 2012 22:36:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A2FABE7A90; Thu, 24 May 2012 22:36:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sbone.de Received: from mail.sbone.de ([IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) by content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yU5rtw+kCAAp; Thu, 24 May 2012 22:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orange-en1.sbone.de (orange-en1.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31:cabc:c8ff:fecf:e8e3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 65C9EBE7A8E; Thu, 24 May 2012 22:35:59 +0000 (UTC) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 22:35:58 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <7E933377-1E19-4EEF-BE89-ED70E9A2A7C1@lists.zabbadoz.net> References: <490F2075-3E4D-4F85-9935-937CED8FB10B@averesystems.com> To: Mark Felder X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 22:36:04 -0000 On 24. May 2012, at 13:47 , Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd = wrote: >=20 >> Hi, >>=20 >> can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above >> information in it so we don't lose it? >>=20 >=20 > I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently = fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our = business uses FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent = fix as much as anyone else :-) >=20 > The reason I've hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have = any truly useful or concrete evidence of where the problem lies. After = Dane Foster contacted me and told me he could recreate the crash on = demand with his workload it was easier to narrow things down. The = suggestion that it was an interrupts issue (by possibly Bjoern Zeeb?)=20 Just for the public archives. Interrupts wasn't me. I might have = mentioned disabling cdrom and fdc as good as possible but everything = else I cannot remember... > and Dane's discovery that his crashes ceased when em0 and mpt0 share = an IRQ, but em0 is completely unused was starting to prove there is some = strong evidence here in favor of the interrupts issue. >=20 > Dane, what's the status on your end? Has your fix still been = successful? Is it also stable if you simply set = hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=3D"1" ? --=20 Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do!