From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 26 19:19:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1941016A4DA; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:19:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aturetta@commit.it) Received: from mail.logital.it (85-18-201-99.ip.fastwebnet.it [85.18.201.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B10343D46; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:19:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aturetta@commit.it) Received: from [192.168.44.2] (adsl-253-10.38-151.net24.it [151.38.10.253]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.logital.it (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k7QJIsmO066348; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:19:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from aturetta@commit.it) Message-ID: <44F09E9B.5090303@commit.it> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:18:51 +0200 From: Angelo Turetta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: it, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <200608200300.k7K30eH5092848@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200608200300.k7K30eH5092848@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_60,FU_FREE,TW_FX, TW_KB,TW_TK autolearn=no version=3.1.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) on mail.logital.it X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on mail.logital.it X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Frank Reppin Subject: Interrupt storm on ASUS M2N-E (was: amd64/101873: Freebsd amd64 hangs on booting sata drive?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:19:11 -0000 Frank Reppin wrote: > From: Frank Reppin > To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, habeeb@cfl.rr.com > Cc: > Subject: Re: amd64/101873: Freebsd amd64 hangs on booting sata drive? > > I've had the same experience with my brand new and shiny > amd64 equipmnent...: > > Mainboard -> ASUS M2N-E (nforce 570 - *no* SLI) > RAM -> DDR2 800 CL5 made by MDT (1.8V ... 2x512) > CPU -> AMD64 4200+ AM2 EE > GPU -> ASUS Top Silent 7600GS > HD -> 2x SATA2 Seagate 160GB drives > > ... it won't boot the official 6.1 REL but booting/installing from: > > 7.0-CURRENT-200608-amd64-disc1.iso > > fixed this issue for me. Lucky man :-) I got to the same (temporary) conclusion before realizing that, as soon as the SATA disks are probed, the system is plagued by an interrupt storm that render it almost unusable: #vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 6 0 irq6: fdc0 1 0 irq14: ata0 47 0 irq16: fwohci0 1 0 irq17: fxp0 1809 0 irq21: ohci0+ 2 0 irq22: ehci0 1 0 irq23: atapci1 716308228 159605 cpu0: timer 8974123 1999 Total 725284218 161605 Booting amd64 or i386 gives the same results. On a different boot atapci1 was on irq20 (but I cannot remember if it was amd64 or i386), but the storm was unchanged. Now the PC has a i386 minimal installation. I also tried kldload-ing if_nfe (the on-board ethernet is a Marvell): the driver attaches, but the responsiveness of the system deteriorates visibly, and I ended up with a corrupted root partition trying to build world with both /usr/src and /usr/obj mounted from NFS. How could I solve/work around this issue? I put on my home server the ACPI dump files, boot messages (verbose) and pciconf -lv, just in case some good soul can shed some light... http://stable.commit.it/m2n-e/ TIA Angelo Turetta Modena - Italy