From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 20 10:59:50 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D565716A419 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:59:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smtp-out0.tiscali.nl (smtp-out0.tiscali.nl [195.241.79.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7F213C468 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:59:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from [195.241.149.28] (helo=guido.klop.ws) by smtp-out0.tiscali.nl with smtp (Tiscali http://www.tiscali.nl) id 1IuQpN-0006mM-Iw for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:59:37 +0100 Received: (qmail 7187 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2007 10:59:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO guido.klop.ws) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Nov 2007 10:59:34 -0000 To: "FreeBSD Stable" From: "Ronald Klop" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4742A44D.8080402@moneybookers.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:59:32 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4742A44D.8080402@moneybookers.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.24 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: Weird issue with DELL PE2850 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, 20 Nov 2007 10:59:50 -0000 On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:09:33 +0100, Stefan Lambrev = wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing strange problem with PE2850 - CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) = = > CPU 3.20GHz (3192.23-MHz K8-class CPU) > It's a dual processor (with HT) server and worked very well with freeb= sd = > 6.2, > before few days I updated one of ours pe2850 to see how will 6.3 = > perform, and the first think that I notice > is a freeze for few minutes during boot. > > Everything is ok till the following lines are displayed: > SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! > SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! > SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched! > 2-5min freeze > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a > ... > I saw the same thing on other pe2850 with 7-BETA2, and I'm pretty sure= = > that both servers > didn't have such problems with earlier versions of 7-current and = > 6.2-stable. > > I'm running amd64 on both servers. > on 6.3 hyperthreading is disabled and on 7b2 is enabled. > I have CPUTYPE?=3Dnocona in /etc/make.conf > > Any ideas where to dig and how to debug? > Can someone else confirm this? > I'm sure pe2850 is/was very popular server ;) > Did you boot with verbose messages on? Ronald. -- = Ronald Klop Amsterdam, The Netherlands