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

[Mark Felder]

We don't have any indications that before the crash processes will take  
unusual amounts of CPU. The only time there is high CPU usage is at the  
point where it does enter the crashed state and no longer seems to be able  
to communicate with the disk.

I'm not sure this is the same bug but we'll keep an eye out for it. Thanks  
for reporting your experience!