From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 3 05:33:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D062716A422; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 05:33:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8676343D46; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 05:33:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662561A3C2F; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 628EF51B15; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 01:33:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 01:33:32 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ganbold Message-ID: <20060403053331.GA60319@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <442BBDED.4060804@micom.mng.net> <7579f7fb0603312322y46d87807t2e13af72bae45d96@mail.gmail.com> <44309D09.9040503@micom.mng.net> <20060403040807.GA58859@xor.obsecurity.org> <4430B243.3060405@micom.mng.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gKMricLos+KVdGMg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4430B243.3060405@micom.mng.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: mj@feral.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, mjacob@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant ML370 G4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:33:33 -0000 --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:27:31PM +0900, Ganbold wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:56:57PM +0900, Ganbold wrote: > > =20 > >>Here is dmes.boot and pciconf output on FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE. > >>Boot takes 3-4 minutes after "da0: 140014MB (286749488 512 byte sectors= :=20 > >>255H 63S/T 17849C)" line and continues. > >>I will try to upgrade again to 6.1-PRERELEASE later today. I did before= =20 > >>and the problem still was there. > >> =20 > > > >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. > > =20 > 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? Please explain what you mean: why do you have to manually press "Enter"? Kris --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEMLOrWry0BWjoQKURAg4QAJ4hwxDn3PfVuCLYjug5pViupbGsqgCfe8gF Stbn1UITtlrU3DSCt96B/uQ= =x+XQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gKMricLos+KVdGMg--