Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:05:59 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 & AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns) Message-ID: <hkup1g$763$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <4B72D94A.8030509@icyb.net.ua> References: <hkujop$hsa$1@ger.gmane.org> <4B72D94A.8030509@icyb.net.ua>
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On 02/10/10 17:05, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 10/02/2010 17:36 Ivan Voras said the following: >> It looks like I've stumbled upon a bug in vSphere 4 (recent update) with >> FreeBSD/amd64 8.0/8-stable (but not 7.x) guests on Opteron(s). In this >> combination, everything works fine until a moderate load is started - a >> buildworld is enough. About five minutes after the load starts, the >> vSphere client starts getting timeouts while talking with the host and >> soon after the guest VM is forcibly shut down without any trace of a >> reason in various logs. The same VM runs fine on hosts with Xeon CPUs. >> The shutdown happens regardless if there is a vSphere client connected. >> >> This is very repeatable, on Sun Fire X4140 hosts. >> >> With 7.x/7.stable guests everything works fine. >> >> I'm posting this for future reference and to see if anyone has >> encountered something like that, or has an idea why this happens. > > Wild guess - try disabling superpages in the guests. It looks like your guess is perfectly correct :) The guest has been doing buildworlds for an hour and it works fine. Thanks! It's strange how this doesn't affect the Xeons...home | help
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