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

[Mark Felder]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:37:40 -0500, Mark Saad <nonesuch at longcount.org>  
wrote:

> How do you have suj on 8.3 ? Are you using a patch ?

I don't have suj on 8.3

> Also can you retest 9 with the following  
> sysctlkern.timecounter.hardware=Acpi-fast

Yes, I'll attempt that as soon as possible. We're under a tight deadline  
to migrate critical resources off of VMWare now so I don't know how soon I  
can test.

> Also in esxi what setup options do you have for the vm's ?

I'm not sure what ones I have off the top of my head, but VMWare support  
has previously poured over ever option to make sure nothing was  
misconfigured.

> Lastly do you have esxi setup to talk to a ntp server ? If so can you  
> confirm that  it's working ? I mean the esxi host not the vm .

Yes, and yes. We've got a reliable NTP infrastructure at work and ESXi is  
definitely using it.