Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

[Volodymyr Kostyrko]

Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 22/03/2012 17:33 Volodymyr Kostyrko said the following:
>> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> on 22/03/2012 15:19 Mike Tkachuk said the following:
>>>> kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0
>>>
>>> It might make sense to try 1 here.
>>> Also you could attempt to involve mav@ directly - here is an author of the code
>>> and an expert on it.
>>
>> Better ask before setting as this doubles hpet0 (with HPET) or cpu0:timer (with
>> LAPIC) interrupt rate for me.
>
> Does it make your system unusable?
> Are you comparing with pre-eventtimers version of FreeBSD?

In short term - no. Haven't tested it thoroughly. Results are the same 
(double interrupt rate according to `systat 1 -v`) for:
  * i386 and amd64 9-STABLE;
  * amd64 9.0.

As everything related to timing/freq/acpi can be unpredictive I wouldn't 
recommend this to anyone. I own at least two Intel CPU's failing 
somewhere near timing/apic when loading cpufreq and enabling powerd.

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