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Date:      Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:53:45 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        "dmilith ." <dmilith@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: 13.0 RC4 might be delayed
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On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 5:07 AM dmilith . <dmilith@gmail.com> wrote:

> It may not only be Virtualbox, but also happens under Vmware VMs.
>
> I use Vmware Fusion 7 pro as my software build-host on top of my Mac
> Pro for years now, but I can't build much with 13.0 cause regular
> build processes (like sed, awk, grep, zsh) turn into zombies randomly.
> Example shot from my private CI from yesterday:
> http://s.verknowsys.com/12f14b0350ee3baeb8f153cd48764bc8.png
>
> The issue doesn't happen on 12.2, 12.1, 12.0 or older releases.
>
> I reported this issue (I'm testing it since 13-alpha) here:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D253718
>
> In RC3 it feels it got even worse and happens even more often=E2=80=A6 It=
's a
> critical release blocker if you ask me=E2=80=A6
>
> kind regards
> Daniel
>
> On 27/03/2021, David G Lawrence via freebsd-current
> <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 1:01 PM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 26/03/2021 03:40, The Doctor via freebsd-current wrote:
> >> > > ??? if people are having issues with ports like ???
> >> >
> >> > If I'm not mistaken:
> >> >
> >> > * 13.0-RC3 seems to be troublesome, as a guest machine, with
> >> > emulators/virtualbox-ose 6.1.18 as the host
> >> >
> >> > * no such trouble with 12.0-RELEASE-p5 as a guest.
> >> >
> >> > I hope to refine the bug report this weekend.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Had nothing but frequent guest lockups on 6.1.18 with my Win7 system.
> >> That
> >> was right after 6.1.18 was put into ports. Fell back to legacy (v5) an=
d
> >> will try again shortly to see if it's any better.
> >
> > Kevin,
> >
> >    Make sure you have these options in your /etc/sysctl.conf :
> >
> > vfs.aio.max_buf_aio=3D8192
> > vfs.aio.max_aio_queue_per_proc=3D65536
> > vfs.aio.max_aio_per_proc=3D8192
> > vfs.aio.max_aio_queue=3D65536
> >
> >    ...otherwise the guest I/O will random hang in VirtualBox. This issu=
e
> > was
> > mitigated in a late 5.x VirtualBox by patching to not use AIO, but the
> > issue
> > came back in 6.x when that patch wasn't carried forward.
> >
> > -DG
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>
>
> --
> --
> Daniel Dettlaff
> Versatile Knowledge Systems
> verknowsys.com
>

My problem was resolved when I spent the time to read the pkg-message in
the port. It is running just fine, now. Somehow I missed David's message,
as well.  Not good. Unfortunate that the patches to turn off AIO did not
make it into V6.
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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