Is it me or does FreeBSD (12.1 amd64) hang when I manually snapshot it in VSphere 6.7?

[rainer at ultra-secure.de]

Am 2020-05-22 16:01, schrieb Scott:

>> 
> #metoo:
> 
> HV: VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 11675023
> VM: # freebsd-version -kru
> 
> 12.1-RELEASE-p1
> 
> 12.1-RELEASE-p1
> 
> 12.1-RELEASE-p1
> 
> # uname -a
> 
> FreeBSD XXX 12.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC  amd64
> # pkg info open-vm\*
> open-vm-tools-nox11-11.0.1_1,2
> 
> doesn't hang but becomes *very* unresponsive over the network.  pings 
> are
> shot.  Console is fine though.  100% idle on top across 4 cores.  And:
> 
> # openssl speed -evp aes-256-cbc
> ...
> 1024 bytes block:  542595.18k (1593774 in 3 seconds)
> 
> I never noticed that before.  I normally turn off snapshotting the RAM
> because it's so much faster and I'm happy with crash consistent 
> rollbacks.
> 
> Rebooting fixes the awful network behaviour.  I didn't check the disk
> subsystem.


OK, I now realized that not snapshotting the memory is way faster and 
doesn't crash the system.

Usually, after I rollback a snapshot I reboot anyway.
Because it was sometimes "funky" in the past, too.


Thanks.

But this should be fixed, too, at some point.



Rainer