Been trying to get a FreeBSD VM server running on Azure on a "Standard DS" size VM (so I have access to SSD storage for PostgreSQL). The "Standard DS" series of VMs also have faster/newer CPUs than the original "Standard A" series of VMs. I am using the image of FreeBSD from here: https://vmdepot.msopentech.com/Vhd/Show?vhdId=56718&version=61117 . After setting up the VM it started rebooting every hour or so. Initially I thought this was an Azure issue and Azure was forcibly rebooting the VM because it wasn't getting health reports back. But I don't' believe this is the case anymore and I think FreeBSD is crashing. (Note: I have setup a FreeBSD VM with a "Standard A" series VM and that seems to be running fine - though it looks like it might have crashed after about 38 hours which is much better than crashing after 1 hour). Here is the "last" log from the last two days: [--redacted--] pts/2 [--redacted--] Fri Feb 5 21:10 still logged in [--redacted--] pts/1 [--redacted--] Fri Feb 5 21:10 still logged in [--redacted--] pts/0 [--redacted--] Fri Feb 5 20:58 - 21:10 (00:12) boot time Fri Feb 5 20:53 [--redacted--] pts/1 [--redacted--] Fri Feb 5 04:59 - crash (15:54) [--redacted--] pts/0 [--redacted--] Fri Feb 5 04:59 - 04:59 (00:00) boot time Fri Feb 5 04:41 boot time Fri Feb 5 02:16 [--redacted--] pts/1 [--redacted--] Fri Feb 5 00:36 - crash (01:40) [--redacted--] pts/0 [--redacted--] Fri Feb 5 00:36 - 00:36 (00:00) boot time Fri Feb 5 00:29 shutdown time Thu Feb 4 09:33 boot time Thu Feb 4 08:47 [--redacted--] pts/0 [--redacted--] Thu Feb 4 07:25 - crash (01:21) boot time Thu Feb 4 07:00 boot time Thu Feb 4 05:03 boot time Thu Feb 4 02:45 [--redacted--] pts/0 [--redacted--] Thu Feb 4 01:08 - crash (01:36) boot time Thu Feb 4 00:58 There are boot times without previous shutdown times - and there is that "crash" text (which is why I'm thinking it is a crash). I added this to /etc/rc.conf: dumpdev="AUTO" dumpdir="/var/crash" Here is the info on the swapfile: sudo swapinfo -h Device 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity /dev/gpt/swapfs 2097152 0B 1.0G 0% Server has 3.5 GB of RAM. 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[Space] to pause[25;0H[23;4HAutoboot in 8 seconds. [Space] to pause[25;0H[23;4HAutoboot in 7 seconds. [Space] to pause[25;0H[23;4HAutoboot in 6 seconds. [Space] to pause[25;0H[23;4HAutoboot in 5 seconds. [Space] to pause[25;0H[23;4HAutoboot in 4 seconds. [Space] to pause[25;0H[23;4HAutoboot in 3 seconds. [Space] to pause[25;0H[23;4HAutoboot in 2 seconds. [Space] to pause[25;0H[23;4HAutoboot in 1 seconds. [Space] to pause[25;0H[23;4H [25;0H-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|//boot/kernel/kernel text=0xfc8de8 -\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|data=0x1283b0+0x207880 /-\|/-\|/-syms=[0x8+0x145350\|/-\|/-\|+0x8+0x15fe20/-\|/-\|/-\] Booting... |/-\|/Copyright (c) 1992-2015 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE #0 r286666: Wed Aug 12 15:26:37 UTC 2015 root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz (1109.29-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x206d7 Family=0x6 Model=0x2d Stepping=7 Features=0xf83fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS> Features2=0x9e982203<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,SSSE3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,HV> AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> XSAVE Features=0x1<XSAVEOPT> Hypervisor: Origin = "Microsoft Hv" real memory = 3758096384 (3584 MB) avail memory = 3515142144 (3352 MB) Event timer "LAPIC" quality 400 ACPI APIC Table: <VRTUAL MICROSFT> random device not loaded; using insecure entropy ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 0 ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard random: <Software, Yarrow> initialized kbd1 at kbdmux0 vmbus0: <Vmbus Devices> on motherboard acpi0: <VRTUAL MICROSFT> on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 attimer0: <AT timer> port 0x40-0x43 irq 0 on acpi0 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100 atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0 Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0 Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900 acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: <Hyper-V ATA storage disengage driver> at channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: <ATA channel> at channel 1 on atapci0 pci0: <bridge> at device 7.3 (no driver attached) vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci0 vgapci0: Boot video device atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4 uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: console (115200,n,8,1) uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcbfff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec random: unblocking device. Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1109287570 Hz quality 800 Timecounter "Hyper-V" frequency 10000000 Hz quality 10000000 storvsc0 on vmbus0 storvsc1 on vmbus0 hyperv-utils0 on vmbus0 hyperv-utils0: Hyper-V Service attaching: Hyper-V Heartbeat Service hyperv-utils1 on vmbus0 hyperv-utils1: Hyper-V Service attaching: Hyper-V KVP Service da0 at blkvsc0 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0 hyperv-utils2 on vmbus0 hyperv-utils2: Hyper-V Service attaching: Hyper-V Shutdown Service da0: <Msft Virtual Disk 1.0> Fixed Direct Access SPC-2 SCSI device hyperv-utils3 on vmbus0 hyperv-utils3: Hyper-V Service attaching: Hyper-V Time Synch Service da0: 300.000MB/s transfers hn0: <Synthetic Network Interface> on vmbus0 da0: Command Queueing enabled da0: 21505MB (44042240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2741C) da1 at blkvsc1 bus 0 scbus2 target 1 lun 0 da1: <Msft Virtual Disk 1.0> Fixed Direct Access SPC-2 SCSI device da1: 300.000MB/s transfershn0: unknown status 1073872902 received hn0: unknown status 1073872902 received hn0: hv send offload request succeeded da1: Command Queueing enabled hn0: Using defaults for TSO: 65518/35/2048 hn0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:3a:31:0d:fc storvsc2 on vmbus0 da1: 7168MB (14680064 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 913C) storvsc3 on vmbus0 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/gpt/rootfs [rw]... WARNING: / was not properly dismounted Setting hostuuid: 253d30c5-d221-8548-b887-f87baa231b2d. Setting hostid: 0xd995724c. Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point swi. Starting file system checks: ** SU+J Recovering /dev/gpt/rootfs ** Reading 33554432 byte journal from inode 8. ** Biilding recovery table. ** Resolving unreferenced inode list. ** Processing journal entries. ** 1 journal records in 512 bytes for 6.25% utilization ** Freed 1 inodes (0 dirs) 0 blocks, and 0 frags. ***** FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN ***** Mounting local file systems:. Writing entropy file:. Setting hostname: [--redacted--] hn0: link state changed to UP Starting dhclient. DHCPDISCOVER on hn0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPOFFER from 168.63.129.16 unknown dhcp option value 0xf5 DHCPREQUEST on hn0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 168.63.129.16 unknown dhcp option value 0xf5 bound to 10.0.2.5 -- renewal in -1 seconds. Starting Network: lo0 hn0. lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> hn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=31b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4,TSO6> ether 00:0d:3a:31:0d:fc inet 10.0.2.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.2.255 nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> Starting devd. add net fe80::: gateway ::1 add net ff02::: gateway ::1 add net ::ffff:0.0.0.0: gateway ::1 add net ::0.0.0.0: gateway ::1 ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib 32-bit compatibility ldconfig path: /usr/lib32 Creating and/or trimming log files. Starting syslogd. No core dumps found. Clearing /tmp (X related). Updating motd:. Mounting late file systems:. Performing sanity check on sshd configuration. Any help would be appreciated! Scott Otis CTO & Co-Founder Tandem www.tandemcal.com<http://www.tandemcal.com/>