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Date:      Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:29:59 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Alex Chistyakov <alexclear@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox 4.1.22 on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE problem: VBoxHeadless eats 100% CPU
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Alex Chistyakov <alexclear@gmail.com>wrote:

> Okay the situation has changed radically after upgrade to 4.2.4,
> VBoxHeadless does not consume 100% CPU anymore but now I have another
> problem:
>
> --- 192.168.221.11 ping statistics ---
> 677 packets transmitted, 677 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.233/4997.489/52552.511/10627.598 ms
>
> This is results of ping between host and guest systems.
>
> A common pattern is like this:
>
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=63 ttl=64 time=21.168 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=64 ttl=64 time=1.914 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=65 ttl=64 time=49.005 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=66 ttl=64 time=7.190 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=67 ttl=64 time=56.000 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=68 ttl=64 time=0.276 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=69 ttl=64 time=0.817 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=70 ttl=64 time=12.177 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=71 ttl=64 time=11.181 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=72 ttl=64 time=19790.362 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=73 ttl=64 time=18789.374 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.221.11: icmp_seq=74 ttl=64 time=17788.379 ms
>
>
> I also have got a lot of "soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s!" Linux
> kernel messages on the guest.
> Since this is a periodic problem I guess the best way to track it down
> is to get thread stack dump samples using gdb when the lock occures
> but unfortunately I am not familiar with FreeBSD flavour of gdb, it
> seems to be quite different. But I will try anyway.


Does 'sysctl kern.eventtimer.periodic=1' help?



-- 
Adam Vande More



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