VirtualBox

Opened 14 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#8113 closed defect (fixed)

Interrupt storm detected since upgrading to 4.0 and still present in 4.0.2

Reported by: John Huong Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 4.0.4
Keywords: interrupt Cc:
Guest type: BSD Host type: Linux

Description

Since upgrading to 4.0 , my pfsense virtual machine reports interrupt storms.

I did what I could to try to minimize this:

a) disable IOAPIC b) reduce CPU to 1

but still it happens.

Worse thing is, when it happens, the CPU utilization of the virtual machine just went to 100%.

Here's a capture from pfsense's syslog. Jan 19 08:50:54 kernel: interrupt storm detected on "irq10:"; throttling interrupt source

I have noticed that one of the virtual network cards is sharing the interrupt with the acpi as well. There are plenty of free interrupts, just wonder why it is not made use of. It would be great if maybe there is a way to manually assign interrupts?

Attachments (3)

VBox.log (43.3 KB ) - added by John Huong 14 years ago.
VBox.log.1 (69.3 KB ) - added by John Huong 14 years ago.
VBox.2.log (46.6 KB ) - added by John Huong 14 years ago.

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Change History (8)

by John Huong, 14 years ago

Attachment: VBox.log added

by John Huong, 14 years ago

Attachment: VBox.log.1 added

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

Does it still happen with VBox 4.0.4?

comment:2 by John Huong, 14 years ago

Yes it still does. But the frequency is not as severe. I am attaching a new log file for this.

by John Huong, 14 years ago

Attachment: VBox.2.log added

comment:3 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

Version: VirtualBox 4.0.2VirtualBox 4.0.4

comment:4 by John Huong, 14 years ago

Seems pfsense 2.0 rc-1 no longer shows this behaviour. FreeBSD 8 is more compatible?

comment:5 by Frank Mehnert, 13 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

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