From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 4 02:12:56 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 AD85616A400; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 02:12:56 +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 AAFF843D45; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 02:12:54 +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 1FQb7e-0005DD-Hi; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:18:24 +0900 Message-ID: <4431D625.2010706@micom.mng.net> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:12:53 +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> <4430BD9A.8010606@micom.mng.net> <20060403062034.GA61453@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060403062034.GA61453@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: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:12:56 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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: >>> >>> >>>> 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. >> > > That's a completely separate issue. I don't know why it's happening > though. > Same problem exists under FreeBSD-6.1-PRERELEASE, machine is not booting, "-" appears on screen and waits forever. When I press "Enter" key on keyboard it starts booting. On CURRENT even worse, I tested yesterday's CURRENT, boot panics saying CPU class not configured. Ganbold > Kris >