What command did you run to change the clock choices? I need to change the ACPI-fast.
I got this result: kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) PIIX(0) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000) Marc R. Meshurle, Jr. Senior Engineer/MCP Kato Tech (a division of 911 Computer Concepts Inc.) Exton, PA. 19341 610-280-3566 610-280-7007 (fax) www.katotech.com<http://www.katotech.com/> [Description: cid:image001.gif@01C98610.4E311CD0] Click here for support from Marc Jr<http://www.katotech.com/support/support.exe> From: list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of Ian Bowers Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:28 To: pfSense support and discussion Subject: Re: [pfSense] PF Sense Appliance on VMWARE 5.0 ESX FreeBSD has historically had issues with the default clock timer. A clock that's not running right can screw with the machine's perception of time intervals, and thusly with CPU usage calculations. on the CLI run: sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware if the result is: kern.timecounter.hardware: HPET then this is likely your issue. to see your clock choices, run this command, and you should get the resulting output as below: sysctl kern.timecounter.choice kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0) ACPI-fast(900) HPET(950) dummy(-1000000) The numbers are how preferred the given timer is. ACPI-fast will usually show up on a VM running on top of ESXi. When I switched my problematic FreeBSD VMs to ACPI-fast, all my weird phantom issues went away... no more phantop pegged CPUs or hung machines. -Ian On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Marc R. Meshurle Jr. <m...@katotech.com<mailto:m...@katotech.com>> wrote: Open VMtools are installed and running nicely (beta version). I'll try the latest ESXi500-201207001 update to see of that clears up some of the CPU pegs. Marc R. Meshurle, Jr. Senior Engineer/MCP Kato Tech (a division of 911 Computer Concepts Inc.) Exton, PA. 19341 610-280-3566<tel:610-280-3566> 610-280-7007<tel:610-280-7007> (fax) www.katotech.com<http://www.katotech.com/> [Description: cid:image001.gif@01C98610.4E311CD0] Click here for support from Marc Jr<http://www.katotech.com/support/support.exe> From: list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org<mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org> [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org<mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org>] On Behalf Of Josh Karli Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 12:04 To: pfSense support and discussion Subject: Re: [pfSense] PF Sense Appliance on VMWARE 5.0 ESX On 8/18/2012 12:46 AM, Marc R. Meshurle Jr. wrote: I am not a newbie to PFS, and been using it since v1.02. I recently installed VMWARE 5.0 ESX on a beefy Dell T610. 4 NIC's and separated a WAN NIC for PFSense per the install doc for the VMWARE concept. It sees the NIC as an E1000. When I got it running under the ISO mounted CD, I have had great success, and it runs with little overhead. I ran a snapshot at this point (thank you VMWARE for this feature). When I install it to the datastore (as PFSense says - install to local hard drive under option 99), the CPU pegs at 100% for no reason when it is completed after a reboot. I reverted to the PRE hard drive install, and back to very minimal CPU usage. Any suggestions? Marc R. Meshurle, Jr. Senior Engineer/MCP Exton, PA. 19341 _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org<mailto:List@lists.pfsense.org> http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Are you running ESXi 5.0 update 1? Many bug fixes in there. _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org<mailto:List@lists.pfsense.org> http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
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