hostd crashes

jchangskytap · ‎02-01-2012

Hi,

I am running vsphere and my hostd daemon is crashing with a core dump. It doesn't seem that it is under terribly heavy use when it crashes; perhaps 2 or 3 concurrent operations at max. Max connections is not over 6. I'm running ESXi 4.1.0, 348481.

Thanks in advance for any help you can kindly provide.

I'm seeing this in the logs:

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [00] rip 1b96dbf3

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [01] rip 1b7ffa0e

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [02] rip 1b953291

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [03] rip 1b963d43

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [04] rip 1b7a13c6

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [05] rip 0865c3df

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [06] rip 08628946

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [07] rip 0862b656

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [08] rip 08655386

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [09] rip 086557a2

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [10] rip 086560e8

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [11] rip 07d2d9fc

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [12] rip 08559a09

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [13] rip 08559e71

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [14] rip 1b98bd68

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [15] rip 1b98be44

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [16] rip 1b983baf

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [17] rip 1b9865c8

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [18] rip 07d2d9fc

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [19] rip 1b97b389

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [20] rip 1c0654fb

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 Hostd: [21] rip 1ce4fd1e

2012-01-31 14:37:00 c2b4 10.8.0.24 vmkernel: 268:18:20:34.304 cpu3:12401892)User: 2428: wantCoreDump : vix-async-pipe -enabled : 1

RDPetruska · ‎02-02-2012

Thread successfully moved from VMware Server 2 to VMware ESXi™ 4.

jchangskytap · ‎02-09-2012

We restarted these machines and the problem went away. They had been up for ~3.5 months with lots of activity.

Is this a known leak of some sort? I've noticed from my dev boxes that turning down the memory on hostd makes this more likely under heavy traffic, and turning it up helps.

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