On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 at 00:05 Steve Yates <st...@teamits.com> wrote:

> Any chance it had a 32 bit install and you manually upgraded to 64?  I
> believe pfSense recommends a wipe and reinstall in that case.
>
> --
>
> Steve Yates
> ITS, Inc.
>

Nope, it had always been on 64-bit. We also did a wipe and reinstall last
year on 2.3.


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: List [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of Liwei
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 8:08 AM
> To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List <list@lists.pfsense.org>
> Subject: Re: [pfSense] pfSense 2.4 consistently crashes daily
>
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 at 01:08 WebDawg <webd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It should work though.  A great many people virtualize pfSense:
> >
> > https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_on_VMware_vSphere_/_ESXi
> >
> > Here is some more information:
> >
> > https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/VirtIO_Driver_Support
> > https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Lost_Traffic_/_Packets_Disappear
> > https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Virtualizing_pfSense_on_Proxmox
> >
> > I know what it is like to ask for support and see people stop helping
> > because something is virtualized.  I have seen bad code fail in
> > virtualization situations only to here 'do not virtualize'.
> >
> > From what I know, BSD has trouble with NIC interfaces and such.  Do
> > you have any limiters or QOS installed?  I would take a look at the
> > nic interfaces first.  Can you actively monitor the log to look for
> > errors once the VM is booted?
> >
> > I virtualized pfSense on proxmox about a year ago and BSD hated the
> > cpu timers and such.  I would get so many issues from it until I
> > figured it out but everything was plain as day in the kernel messages
> > that were outputted.
> >
> > There is an ova file available via the gold subscription:
> >
> > https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/VMware_Appliance
> >
> > You need to get more information for me to help further.  It would be
> > great to get a copy of some logs.
> >
> > Here is a XenServer thread:
> > https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=88467
> >
> > Last time I virtualized the big deal was hvm nic vs pvhvm NIC.  You
> > could do limiters on one (I think hvm) but the NIC's become CPU bound
> > because of how HVM works.  I could only push like 10-30 mbits out of
> > an i3 processor.
> >
> > I do not know if this has been solved, or if it is solvable.  pfSense
> > follows FreeBSD so most of the fixes for this come from FreeBSD,
> > though pfSense had/has some of its own kernel hacks.
> >
> >
> >
> Hi Vick, thanks for the assistance, nonetheless!
>
> Hi WebDawg,
>     Yeah, I guessed as much that the problem should be on my side, because
> something this fatal should already be widely reported.
>
>     I don't have any limiters or QoS set. I've set up logging of the serial
> port so at least I know what are the events leading up to the crash.
> Nothing interesting though, it just... happens. How do I set up log
> monitoring? My guess is I'll probably have to turn on remote syslog and log
> over. Will set up when I get the chance.
>
>     The odd thing is this is a 7+ years old setup (but we did do a fresh
> install of 2.3 when we upgraded hardware 1+ years ago), and we never had
> any serious issues. In fact it was purring along nicely on 2.3 since it was
> first installed, until we upgraded to 2.4.
>
>     I'm pretty confident of the hardware since it is only a year old, the
> other VMs are not having any issues, and reverting to 2.3 works fine. Thus
> based on a hunch I decided to remove a couple of bridge interfaces
> (bridging our oVPN tap interfaces to the main and private LANs) when I sent
> my first email to the list.
>
>     The crashes haven't occurred since then for 2 days. I'm not sure if it
> is a coincidence or not, but it does seem like my configuration may be
> triggering some bug. Or I may have mis-configured something.
>
>     I'll continue to iterate things around to narrow down the problem, but
> given that I have to wait a few days after each change to be sure on
> whether it crashes or not, any suggestion is very welcome!
>
> Warm regards,
> Liwei
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