From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 07:36:15 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 2450916A4E2 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 07:36:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com) Received: from chuggalug.clues.com (chuggalug2.demon.co.uk [83.104.169.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5109843D5E for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 07:36:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com) Received: from chuggalug.clues.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chuggalug.clues.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k727aAKP027837 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 07:36:10 GMT (envelope-from geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com) Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by chuggalug.clues.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id k727aA9s027836 for freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 07:36:10 GMT (envelope-from geoffb) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 07:36:10 +0000 From: Geoff Buckingham To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060802073610.GA27139@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <8753F8EA457BFF4A9707CADA143C8F6801623829@LONSMSXM04.emea.ime.reuters.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8753F8EA457BFF4A9707CADA143C8F6801623829@LONSMSXM04.emea.ime.reuters.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 07:36:15 -0000 > > 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:-(