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 > -- > Clear Skies,LiweiCo-Founder, CTO > > TinyMOS > > > <http://tinymos.com/> <https://www.facebook.com/thetinymos/> > <https://www.instagram.com/thetinymos/> <https://twitter.com/thetinymos> > > 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Level 1 The Hangar, Singapore 119613 > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > -- Clear Skies,LiweiCo-Founder, CTO TinyMOS <http://tinymos.com/> <https://www.facebook.com/thetinymos/> <https://www.instagram.com/thetinymos/> <https://twitter.com/thetinymos> 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Level 1 The Hangar, Singapore 119613 _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
