VMware optimalisation lost on upgrade.
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During install when on VMware, a file is written (/var/IS_VMWARE) to the filesystem.
Based on this file 2 special VMware tweaks are made:
/etc/sysctl.conf: -> kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
/mnt/boot/loader.conf -> kern.hz="100"# If the platform is vmware, lets do some fixups. if [ -f /var/IS_VMWARE ]; then echo "" >> /mnt/etc/sysctl.conf; echo "kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254" >> /mnt/etc/sysctl.conf; echo kern.hz="100" >> /mnt/boot/loader.conf; fi;But after an update only the tweak for loader.conf is still there, the sysctrl.conf tweak is lost.
Anyone else having this?thx,
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I installed "2.0-BETA5 (amd64) built on Sun Feb 6 07:01:51 EST 2011" as guest in vmware player 3.1.3 with Windows 7 x64 host.
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/var/IS_VMWARE exists
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/etc/sysctl.conf contains kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
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/boot/loader.conf contains kern.hz="100"
You might want to mention the exact version you installed. Just cut/paste from Status->Dashboard page.
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I installed "2.0-BETA5 (amd64) built on Sun Feb 6 07:01:51 EST 2011" as guest in vmware player 3.1.3 with Windows 7 x64 host.
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/var/IS_VMWARE exists
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/etc/sysctl.conf contains kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
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/boot/loader.conf contains kern.hz="100"
You might want to mention the exact version you installed. Just cut/paste from Status->Dashboard page.
Please read carefully.
After install everything indeed is OK, as i mentioned in my first post. But when you do an upgrade after the first install, the sysctl.conf option is gone.
Please try that. -
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I installed "2.0-BETA5 (amd64) built on Sun Feb 6 07:01:51 EST 2011" as guest in vmware player 3.1.3 with Windows 7 x64 host.
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/var/IS_VMWARE exists
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/etc/sysctl.conf contains kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
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/boot/loader.conf contains kern.hz="100"
You might want to mention the exact version you installed. Just cut/paste from Status->Dashboard page.
Please read carefully.
After install everything indeed is OK, as i mentioned in my first post. But when you do an upgrade after the first install, the sysctl.conf option is gone.
Please try that.Sorry I misunderstood what you meant by upgrade (I thought you replaced 1.2.3 with 2.0-BETA5.)
I remember after updating to Feb 5 version from Feb 2 version, the console would get stuck before showing the menu. And rebooting with extra logging enabled showed t_delta too long and t_delta too short messages. Installing from scratch made the console get unstuck. Maybe this is related? I was going to try updating to see if I could reproduce your problem, but the snapshot server is down.
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