Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0
Mike Tkachuk
mike at tkachuk.name
Thu Mar 22 13:19:41 UTC 2012
Hello Ian,
I'm also facing same problem, just updated to esxi 5 update1, will
see if it changes anything.
It really looks like an esxi problem but I did not experienced it
with FreeBSD 8
Here is the output of requested commands:
sysctl kern.timecounter
kern.timecounter.tick: 1
kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0) ACPI-fast(900) HPET(950) dummy(-1000000)
kern.timecounter.hardware: HPET
kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 1217640570
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 14318180
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.mask: 16777215
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.counter: 708780
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.frequency: 3579545
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.quality: 900
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 14912
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.counter: 1849391829
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.frequency: 3411483000
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.quality: -100
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0
kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 1
sysctl kern.eventtimer
kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(600) i8254(100) RTC(0)
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.flags: 7
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency: 33000086
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality: 600
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.flags: 1
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.quality: 100
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.flags: 17
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.frequency: 32768
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.quality: 0
kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0
kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC
kern.eventtimer.idletick: 0
kern.eventtimer.singlemul: 4
vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
irq1: atkbd0 192 0
irq15: ata1 17 0
irq18: em0 3519101 2
cpu0:timer 92428991 63
irq256: mpt0 1887875 1
cpu2:timer 29982105 20
cpu1:timer 46249642 31
cpu3:timer 15983874 10
cpu6:timer 4721414 3
cpu7:timer 4554357 3
cpu4:timer 8397088 5
cpu5:timer 6163947 4
Total 213888603 146
----- near 10 sec later -----
sysctl kern.timecounter
kern.timecounter.tick: 1
kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0) ACPI-fast(900) HPET(950) dummy(-1000000)
kern.timecounter.hardware: HPET
kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 1217640570
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 14318180
kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.mask: 16777215
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.counter: 802778
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.frequency: 3579545
kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.quality: 900
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 24402
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.mask: 4294967295
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.counter: 3853372129
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.frequency: 3411483000
kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.quality: -100
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0
kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 1
sysctl kern.eventtimer
kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(600) i8254(100) RTC(0)
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.flags: 7
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency: 33000086
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality: 600
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.flags: 1
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.frequency: 1193182
kern.eventtimer.et.i8254.quality: 100
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.flags: 17
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.frequency: 32768
kern.eventtimer.et.RTC.quality: 0
kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0
kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC
kern.eventtimer.idletick: 0
kern.eventtimer.singlemul: 4
vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
irq1: atkbd0 192 0
irq15: ata1 17 0
irq18: em0 3519133 2
cpu0:timer 92429487 63
irq256: mpt0 1887875 1
cpu2:timer 29983186 20
cpu1:timer 46250719 31
cpu3:timer 15983969 10
cpu6:timer 4721451 3
cpu7:timer 4554394 3
cpu4:timer 8397125 5
cpu5:timer 6164274 4
Total 213891822 146
--
Best regards,
Mike mailto:mike at tkachuk.name
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