Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

[Mark Saad]

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On Sep 13, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> wrote:

> Changing timer source has not been tested. It doesn't crash in 7.x, so did something timer related change in 8.x?
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Mark
  Yes the time counter choice priority changed , in 8 favoring higher precision hardware like hpet over acpi-fast/safe . I am not sure why or when thus was done; or if this is a side effect of another change. Interestingly centos/rhel/suse has made similar changes and VMware has odd issues with them as well. 

Can you boot up a 7 environment and get us the value sysctl kern.timecounter . Then get that from an a 8 and 9 environment . Then if the 7 environment uses a different time counter can you try using that value on your crashing setup and report back what the result is . 

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Mark saad | mark.saad at longcount.org