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    pfSense 2.7.2 in Hyper-V freezing with no crash report after reboot

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      jacolex @maitops
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      @maitops unfortunately, today morning we encountered network outages and the firewall needs to be restarted.

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @Bismarck
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        @Bismarck said in pfSense 2.7.2 in Hyper-V freezing with no crash report after reboot:

        No hvevent storm here for 6 days and 23.5 hours since my last update,

        So this was setting the power management to 'high power' in Hyper-V? Which presumably disables throttling down the VM in some way.

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          Bismarck @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10

          Yes, or just disabling the power management/green feature of the Nic should be enough, this is how it is right now on my Hyper-V host. There was a message (no error) in the Windows event logs about switching states or so, while the hvevent storm.

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            maitops @Bismarck
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              Bismarck
              last edited by Bismarck

              Quick update:

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              Had to reboot once because auf updates, but since than rock solid no incidence. Enabled all extra IP-Lists and Suricata and so again.

              @maitops Just disable all energy saving features of the nic or select high performance power profile in windows for a test.

              It must be the power state switching or the system tunables I did im my last update post.

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                maitops @Bismarck
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                @Bismarck I still have the issue, I have a mellanox connectx-6 Lx NIC, I just disabled the "Interupt Moderation" too

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                  Bismarck @maitops
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                  @maitops

                  I have a Intel 82599 and X550-AT2 in use.

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                  Did you try the loader.conf.local and system tunables from the screenshot?

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                    maitops @Bismarck
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                    @Bismarck Yes, iI changed the loader.conf and rebooted.
                    the tunable, not everything, only:

                    hw.hvtimesync.sample_thresh
                    hw.hvtimesync.ignore_sync

                    i can try to set all the others too

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      You should set custom loader values in /boot/loader.conf.local (create that file) to prevent them being overwritten by the system.

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                        shoulders
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                        is this the same underlying issue as

                        https://forum.netgate.com/topic/197248/pfsense-2-7-2-ram-leak-wired-memory-pool/11

                        might be irrelevant it is on a hypervisor.

                        solution looks like it might to update to pfsense 2.8.0

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                          maitops @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10 My bad, i'm trying with this.
                          I will tell you if it solved my issue.

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