Xin LI wrote: > >> misc/133264 > > > > This one however is not so simple. I have tried building world under > > VMWare ESXi 3.5.0 Update 3 (FreeBSD as a guest OS) and the building > > process crashed occasionally if more than 1 CPU is allocated to the > > virtual machine. The failures are due to various processes like sh, > > sed or cc1 dupming core on signal 11 during the build. > > > > The problem seems to be SMP related because enabling only 1 virtual > > CPU removes the problem. Of course it is also VMWare related. > > - From what you have described, it's likely that there is some memory > issue. The FreeBSD Virtual Memory system tends to use all physical > memory and this could be a problem for faulty memory chips (i.e. it's > more easy for FreeBSD to trigger problems).
How is this connected with the number of virtual CPUs? When I give only 1 CPU to the virtual machine, the problem is gone. > > If you have access to the host system and possible, would you please try > to install FreeBSD directly and see if the problem still occurs? Sorry, I cannot do that. This host is already running several Windows servers and has been thoroughly tested before production use. I have however run Memtest-86 v3.2 in the virtual machine for 2 hours and it has found no errors. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:[email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
