From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 3 06:20:43 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 12F6B16A43A; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:20:42 +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 260E143D4C; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:20:38 +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 0AFDC1A3C30; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 53756515EC; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 02:20:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 02:20:35 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ganbold Message-ID: <20060403062034.GA61453@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> <20060403053331.GA60319@xor.obsecurity.org> <4430BD9A.8010606@micom.mng.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4430BD9A.8010606@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 06:20:43 -0000 --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:15:54PM +0900, Ganbold wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:27:31PM +0900, Ganbold wrote: > > =20 > >>Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> =20 > >>>On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:56:57PM +0900, Ganbold wrote: > >>>=20 > >>> =20 > >>>>Here is dmes.boot and pciconf output on FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE. > >>>>Boot takes 3-4 minutes after "da0: 140014MB (286749488 512 byte=20 > >>>>sectors: 255H 63S/T 17849C)" line and continues. > >>>>I will try to upgrade again to 6.1-PRERELEASE later today. I did befo= re=20 > >>>>and the problem still was there. > >>>> =20 > >>>> =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 > >>> =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? > >> =20 > > > >Please explain what you mean: why do you have to manually press "Enter"? > > =20 > It is not booting, "-" appears on screen and waits forever. When I press= =20 > "Enter" > key on keyboard it starts booting. That's a completely separate issue. I don't know why it's happening though. Kris --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEML6yWry0BWjoQKURAnNOAKC8hV3YN0pI0552czuAzGqBtaQxDACgqjyS Ug2EOKAmBK3aLBm0Aqzcm0w= =mS/s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--