Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:27:31 +0900 From: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, mj@feral.com, mjacob@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant ML370 G4) Message-ID: <4430B243.3060405@micom.mng.net> In-Reply-To: <20060403040807.GA58859@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <442BBDED.4060804@micom.mng.net> <7579f7fb0603312322y46d87807t2e13af72bae45d96@mail.gmail.com> <44309D09.9040503@micom.mng.net> <20060403040807.GA58859@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:56:57PM +0900, Ganbold wrote: > >> Here is dmes.boot and pciconf output on FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE. >> Boot takes 3-4 minutes after "da0: 140014MB (286749488 512 byte sectors: >> 255H 63S/T 17849C)" line and continues. >> I will try to upgrade again to 6.1-PRERELEASE later today. I did before >> and the problem still was there. >> > > The mpt driver calls contigmalloc in a way that takes ages to run > because it was poorly rewritten some time ago. Scottl partially fixed > it on 7.0 (after the problem became much worse there - it was taking > over 40 minutes instead of 4) but the change is not complete enough to > back-port yet. > I see. Yes, it eventually becomes up after 3-4 minutes. However what annoying is every time I reboot/restart the server I have to manually press "Enter" key. How can I resolve this issue? Is there any known solution? In any case I will try first RELENG_6 then CURRENT on this machine. thanks, Ganbold > Kris
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