-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 12:52 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > Hi all, > > We have quite a few BSD VMs on our infrastructure and are having some > issues with our main webservers. They die randomly -- ESX shows > high/100% CPU the exact moment it dies (very, very low up until that > point), the console takes keyboard input but doesn't really do anything > or switch VTs, and the server is pingable, but does nothing. We have to > hard reboot. This has been going on for a while and we moved the VMs off > our iSCSI SAN and onto local storge and it's happening still. (Found a > few configuration issues with our SAN; thought it was the issue with > preferred paths being problematic, etc). We really need to contact > someone else who has had success and find out what's different about > their environment. > > I'd like to note that we're still on ESX 4.0 (and behind a bit there) > because our SAN wouldn't support 4.1 until recently and we haven't had > time to switch. > > Personally, I'm convinced this is an ESX issue because BSD never panics > and there's never anything reported on the console when this happens. > I'd really like to hear from someone who has been running FreeBSD in > production on ESX without issues and hopefully they could describe their > setup so we can begin to compare issues. > > A few relavent things to note: > > The ones that crash are usually our main webservers (Apache, PHP, no > MySQL locally though). We have LOTS of IPs on them and they do a ton of > network traffic, but usually don't have a super high load average (maybe > .75 - 1.0 on a normal day?). Currently we're running 8.1-RELEASE on them. > > As I said, they're on local storage right now, but they were on iSCSI to > Dell MD3000i SANs (booo, hisss, we're dumping them so dont worry) > > ESX servers are a mix of Dell and HP.... > > Can't think of many more details. > > Thanks everyone. > > Mark
Hi Mark, Are there any relevant messages logged in /var/log/messages prior to the FreeBSD hard reboot? I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN) before, but I wonder if it would help you by firing some data logging command (-e option) so you have some information to go on. Regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1n/9EACgkQ0sRouByUApBdoQCgtq2MMP+xidLoFc5JEkEaRyN5 H8wAoIGrgMd5dx2QvambZeR0l1SEptkK =EoiA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
