cpu_reset: stopping other CPUs - machine stalls at halt or reboot

2010-07-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, I have a vmware FreeBSD guest with 8 CPU's and 2GB RAM. I am a bit puzzled of the behaviour the system has when I issue reboot and/or halt -p now. It shows cpu_reset: stopping other CPUs and stalls for ~2 minutes. I have a custom SMP kernel and at the moment I was unable to

Re: cpu_reset: stopping other CPUs - machine stalls at halt or reboot

2010-07-25 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:24 PM, claudiu vasadi claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello fellas, I have a vmware FreeBSD guest with 8 CPU's and 2GB RAM. I am a bit puzzled of the behaviour the system has when I issue reboot and/or halt -p now. It shows cpu_reset: stopping other CPUs and stalls

Re: cpu_reset: stopping other CPUs - machine stalls at halt or reboot

2010-07-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
Rob, In the meantime I installed a real freebsd on my work T400 and I am experiencing the same thing. I believe that at this point I can rule out a vmware problem. PS: I also tried hard rebooting after I consider the sync done and I did not experience any weird behavior. Still is it