Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 03:26:44 +0100 From: Domagoj =?UTF-8?Q?Smol=C4=8Di=C4=87?= <rank1seeker@gmail.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> Subject: Re: Slow PXE boot Message-ID: <20200228032644.000018c3@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8F7B8958-5295-4A26-82E9-94C7A62ED8A1@longcount.org> References: <20200224032300.00006290@gmail.com> <8F7B8958-5295-4A26-82E9-94C7A62ED8A1@longcount.org>
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Mark, PXE clients are directly connected to FreeBSD based PXE server, with same E= TH cable. There is no any intermediate hardware like switch, etc ... Regarding '... running at 100mb 1/2 duplex', nope ..., in bios setting is a= ll set to "max" for NICs Finally, result is always 100% repeatable for both tested clients. One always being super fast and the other, unbelievably slow ... On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:46:20 -0500 Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> wrote: > Domagoj=20 > I regularly boot 11.3-Stable and 12.1-Stable amd64 on servers with > 64gb, 128gb , and occasional more . I do t have that issue . Can you > take a peak at the switch your boxes are attached to ; It sounds like > a device is running at 100mb 1/2 duplex . I remember the realtec nics > doing this when set to auto .=20 >=20 > --- > Mark Saad | nonesuch@longcount.org >=20 > > On Feb 23, 2020, at 9:23 PM, Domagoj Smol=C4=8Di=C4=87 > > <rank1seeker@gmail.com> wrote: > >=20 > > =EF=BB=BFYo Crew! > >=20 > > During PXE boot, from server (11.3-RELEASE-p5 i386) with 1 GB RAM, > > client with: 4 GB RAM booted kernel in ~2 min > > 8 GB RAM booted kernel in ~20 min (at least) > > So all below is tested with 2 different clients, each with NIC of > > different manufacturer (Realtec & Intel) > >=20 > > I've read on forums that if client has much, much more RAM than > > server, this happens. Suggestion was to to set loader(8) tunable > > hw.memtest.tests to 0, so client would skip RAM test. > >=20 > > PXE boot is served to clients from /PXE, so ... > > Setting hw.memtest.tests=3D"0" in /PXE/boot/loader.conf, yielded no > > results! > >=20 > > By the way, for some reason, hw.memtest.tests tunable DOESN'T exist > > in man pages! I had to look in source code to confirm it still > > exists. > >=20 > >=20 > > Next, I've tried: > > # echo 'nfs.read_size=3D"16384"' > /PXE/boot/loader.conf > > Changing value to ANY value other than default 1024, completely > > halts client's kernel loading at 'Loading kernel...'! > >=20 > >=20 > > Lastly, I've tried tactic used with UFS's stage 2 /boot/boot, to > > skip stage 3 loader completely and to directly load kernel instead. > > So in dhcpd.conf, I've replaced: filename "boot/pxeboot"; > > with: > > filename "boot/kernel/kernel"; > >=20 > > Result: > > Attempt to pull GENERIC kernel directly, resulted in: "NBP is > > too big to fit in free base memory" Maybe I should try to compile > > custom minimal kernel 'ident PXE' ... It is unbelievable how many > > problems do I have ... > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > Domagoj Smol=C4=8Di=C4=87
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