From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 3 06:15:53 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 9F75016A41F; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:15:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ganbold@micom.mng.net) Received: from publicd.ub.mng.net (publicd.ub.mng.net [202.179.0.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2631C43D53; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:15:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ganbold@micom.mng.net) Received: from [202.179.0.164] (helo=[192.168.0.18]) by publicd.ub.mng.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FQIRE-0009q3-Sp; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:21:20 +0900 Message-ID: <4430BD9A.8010606@micom.mng.net> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:15:54 +0900 From: Ganbold User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060202) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway 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> <20060403053331.GA60319@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060403053331.GA60319@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mj@feral.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, mjacob@FreeBSD.org 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 06:15:53 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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: >>> >>> >>>> 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? >> > > Please explain what you mean: why do you have to manually press "Enter"? > It is not booting, "-" appears on screen and waits forever. When I press "Enter" key on keyboard it starts booting. Ganbold > Kris > >