Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:51:39 +1000 From: "Jan Mikkelsen" <janm@transactionware.com> To: <freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FW: 6.1 hangs after launching CPU on DL380 Message-ID: <008501c6b608$7cb7c610$3301a8c0@janmxp> References: <8753F8EA457BFF4A9707CADA143C8F6801623829@LONSMSXM04.emea.ime.reuters.com> <20060802073610.GA27139@chuggalug.clues.com>
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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
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