On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 03:40:28PM +0200, mxb wrote:

> > On 11 aug. 2016, at 21:44, Kurt Mosiejczuk <kurt-open...@se.rit.edu> wrote:

> > I've noticed that for 5.9, any VMs (in VMware) using vmx(4), end up putting
> > "vmx0: device timeout" into the dmesg a bunch when under network load.

> > I switched one of the VMs to vic(4) and the messages stop.  Another VM that
> > I haven't gotten to upgrading from 5.8 to 5.9 yet doesn't show this in its
> > dmesg and it's our reasonably busy web server.

> > Anyone else see this?  I noticed there were a bunch of changes to vmx(4)
> > after 5.8 as part of the network mpsafe work.

> > dmesg below.

> Hey,
> it would be nice to define ???network load???.
> I have several VMs running 5.8-stable/5.9-stable/current without seeing this.

I was easily able to duplicate it when doing an rsync backup to another
server.  That's when I looked at my IMAP server and noticed it had the
same complaint in the dmesg (and have since switched that to vic(4)).

Does that describe it better?

--Kurt

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