From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 15 01:37:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE13A106566B for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:37:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nonesuch@longcount.org) Received: from mail-qa0-f54.google.com (mail-qa0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CAE8FC08 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:37:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qatn12 with SMTP id n12so364880qat.13 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:37:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:message-id:cc:x-mailer:from:subject:date:to :x-gm-message-state; bh=8qzK4hjfI0VAklTuwANi42+egYVFXU90GeIZUwaohiQ=; b=KOMab4tvgtHDSbkiB38KJZ83C10uBRbab3nMNMPwhziGtfFZgdsWCfXXmyZCGlPyMu S4BShE3Y+ND9rXpF79QSf8mM0kb9Vht6MdphbzZeTE81hsNs3FvefUgBb8N+58LZPRXw AZ3P2kv2oDqSb53NX+q+K1GX6OwDx6NbkXjBTB9zTcI8kJAQRQ1O7o8sIIIUIQLI0cf3 wZ1fwP/dYfIq5TVVwI+6gYqz8fd3ZB9JvPobNZ2vzgani/hutUsFu17hpVTcWjo/GFYT WaIE/VIouVd12Z1dbvjXRsvf9MbTm2bqHHYajf8oXEFmqSgY02511Yze7rYfUKxqqmeP 0KjA== Received: by 10.229.137.148 with SMTP id w20mr3002244qct.22.1347673065001; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.11.108] (ool-182c6d68.dyn.optonline.net. [24.44.109.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d11sm2670535qaj.18.2012.09.14.18.37.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:37:44 -0700 (PDT) References: <201205311157.42909.jhb@freebsd.org> <19d73256-b7c6-417e-a051-a5faeabf219d@email.android.com> <201209121520.26337.jhb@freebsd.org> <5051F7A0.90901@FreeBSD.org> <20120913162815.GA1219@pix.net> <50524C67.3040403@FreeBSD.org> <66357a32-b570-4dc3-a27c-d32903da41db@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <9566CAD6-AD55-4BC5-B9B0-92C15949A63B@longcount.org> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (9B206) From: Mark Saad Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:37:40 -0400 To: Mark Felder X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQm04T6LKkMzRb0A0gihKKwp7LMhgH/Xgj8WytIR77u5kqtRcg/e9r82ds8GyIL3hQ5RsVjC Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:37:52 -0000 On Sep 14, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > Hi Mark, >=20 > Here's the output of our VMs running on ESXi 4.1u1 >=20 > FreeBSD 7.4: > # sysctl kern.timecounter.choice > kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) ACPI-safe(850) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000) > # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware > kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-safe >=20 > FreeBSD 8.3: > # sysctl kern.timecounter.choice > kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) ACPI-safe(850) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000) > # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware > kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-safe >=20 > FreeBSD 9.0: > # sysctl kern.timecounter.choice > kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(1000) i8254(0) ACPI-fast(900) dummy(-1000000)= > # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware > kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC >=20 >=20 > Note that both 8.3 and 9.0 crash, while 7.4 does not. How do you have suj on 8.3 ? Are you using a patch ? Also can you retest 9 w= ith the following sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=3DAcpi-fast=20 Also in esxi what setup options do you have for the vm's ? Lastly do you have esxi setup to talk to a ntp server ? If so can you confir= m that it's working ? I mean the esxi host not the vm .=20 --- Mark saad | mark.saad@longcount.org=20