The following reply was made to PR misc/164419; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> To: Robert Lampe <rla...@tqhosting.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/164419: 9.0-RELEASE clock stops in Xen 3.2.1 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:31:13 +0000 On 23/01/2012 20:14, Robert Lampe wrote: > After following the freebsd-update instructions > (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/installation.html) to upgrade to > 9.0-RELEASE, we have found that VMs running in HVM mode in Xen 3.2.1 > have an issue where the clock stops working after about 3 minutes: # > date Mon Jan 23 20:06:21 UTC 2012 # date Mon Jan 23 20:09:48 UTC 2012 > Any other call of date after this outputs the same result. New > processes cannot be started and the machine is essentially frozen. The timecounter code was overhauled for 9.0, making progress towards a 'tickless' kernel. As a quick workaround you should be able to set kern.eventtimer.periodic=1 to get ticks going again. You might want to add it to /etc/sysctl.conf to make it permanent until a proper fix can be made. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
