From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 07:52:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB1216A4E1 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 07:52:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from janm@transactionware.com) Received: from mail.transactionware.com (mail.transactionware.com [203.14.245.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63F5D43D5A for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 07:51:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from janm@transactionware.com) Received: (qmail 94103 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2006 07:52:08 -0000 Received: from new.transactionware.com (192.168.1.55) by dm.transactionware.com with SMTP; 2 Aug 2006 07:52:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 49519 invoked by uid 1026); 2 Aug 2006 07:52:06 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.51 by new.transactionware.com (envelope-from , uid 1003) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.51):. Processed in 3.154932 secs); 02 Aug 2006 07:52:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO janmxp) (192.168.1.51) by new.transactionware.com with SMTP; 2 Aug 2006 07:52:02 -0000 Message-ID: <008501c6b608$7cb7c610$3301a8c0@janmxp> From: "Jan Mikkelsen" To: References: <8753F8EA457BFF4A9707CADA143C8F6801623829@LONSMSXM04.emea.ime.reuters.com> <20060802073610.GA27139@chuggalug.clues.com> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:51:39 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.3790.2663 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.2663 Subject: Re: FW: 6.1 hangs after launching CPU on DL380 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:52:00 -0000 Geoff Buckingham wrote: >> I am not sure that this is an issue specific to proliant, but... >> >> I just finished an install of 6.1 on a dl380 with dual xeon 3.2 procs. >> things seem fine, but when it is booting, it hangs for about 4 minutes >> after the "Launching CPU x" phase. Boot continues normally after that, >> but the delay is disconcerting for some reason. >> >> anyone dealt with this. >> > Do you get this with non SMP kernels? We have seen hangs, or pauses on > machines with ciss controllers during GEOM setup. The length of the pause > varied with the number of GEOMs loaded. It was ususally around a minute > with a minimal set. It would seem logical the period would increase with > more disk arrays. (We only had one). > > My own, untested, theory is GEOM is tasting the passX devices provided by > the ciss driver and becoming confused by something. > > Currently we just live with the pause:-( I've seen it too, seems to happen just after it finds the ciss controller, I haven't investigated in more detail. I am pretty sure that I've seen in even with just a GENERIC kernel, but I haven't tested for a while. The delay does get to be a pain ... Jan Mikkelsen