Re: SOLVED: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-08-03 Thread Mark Saad
--- On Aug 3, 2012, at 3:59 AM, Adam Strohl wrote: > Doh, correct URL for the forum post is: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31929&page=2 > > On 8/3/2012 14:38, Adam Strohl wrote: >> Just a heads up on the original issue, which is FreeBSD's timer/clock >> stopping under ESXi 5.0

Re: SOLVED: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-08-03 Thread Adam Strohl
Doh, correct URL for the forum post is: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31929&page=2 On 8/3/2012 14:38, Adam Strohl wrote: Just a heads up on the original issue, which is FreeBSD's timer/clock stopping under ESXi 5.0 and some later versions of VMware Workstation. I've gotten a few di

Re: SOLVED: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-08-03 Thread Adam Strohl
Just a heads up on the original issue, which is FreeBSD's timer/clock stopping under ESXi 5.0 and some later versions of VMware Workstation. I've gotten a few direct messages that this thread ranks high on Google but people are missing the solution. A few months ago I found this forum posting

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-04-08 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 18:13 +0200, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > > 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 mig

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-22 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Andriy Gapon wrote: 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. What exactly you wouldn't recommend? Let's not introduce unrelated

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-22 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 18:13 +0200, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 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

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-22 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 22/03/2012 18:13 Volodymyr Kostyrko said the following: > 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 h

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-22 Thread 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 co

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-22 Thread Andriy Gapon
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 >>

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-22 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
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 H

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-22 Thread Andriy Gapon
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. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-stabl

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-22 Thread Mike Tkachuk
Hello Ian, I'm also facing same problem, just updated to esxi 5 update1, will see if it changes anything. It really looks like an esxi problem but I did not experienced it with FreeBSD 8 Here is the output of requested commands: sysctl kern.timecounter kern.timecounter.tick: 1 ker

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-18 Thread Adam Strohl
On 3/12/2012 0:01, Ian Lepore wrote: > It seems unlikely to me that ntpd and the vm tools would be fighting in > a way that caused this symptom. The way ntpd affects timing is to step > the clock (which gets logged), or to numerically steer the kernel's > timekeeping routines. The steering is cl

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-18 Thread Steve Wills
On 03/10/12 08:56, Adam Strohl wrote: > On 3/10/2012 17:10, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: >> On 10. Mar 2012, at 08:07 , Adam Strohl wrote: >> >>> I've now seen this on two different VMs on two different ESXi servers >>> (Xeon based hosts but different hardware otherwise and at different >>> facilities): >

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-11 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 15:07 +0700, Adam Strohl wrote: > I've now seen this on two different VMs on two different ESXi servers > (Xeon based hosts but different hardware otherwise and at different > facilities): > > Everything runs fine for weeks then (seemingly) suddenly/randomly the > clock ST

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-10 Thread Adam Strohl
On 3/10/2012 17:10, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 10. Mar 2012, at 08:07 , Adam Strohl wrote: I've now seen this on two different VMs on two different ESXi servers (Xeon based hosts but different hardware otherwise and at different facilities): Everything runs fine for weeks then (seemingly) sudde

Re: Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-10 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 10. Mar 2012, at 08:07 , Adam Strohl wrote: > I've now seen this on two different VMs on two different ESXi servers (Xeon > based hosts but different hardware otherwise and at different facilities): > > Everything runs fine for weeks then (seemingly) suddenly/randomly the clock > STOPS. Apa

Time Clock Stops in FreeBSD 9.0 guest running under ESXi 5.0

2012-03-10 Thread Adam Strohl
I've now seen this on two different VMs on two different ESXi servers (Xeon based hosts but different hardware otherwise and at different facilities): Everything runs fine for weeks then (seemingly) suddenly/randomly the clock STOPS. In the first case I saw a jump backwards of about 15 minut