Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:41:21 -0700 From: Nicholas Esborn <nick@netdot.net> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Practical limit for pre-loaded md_image size? Message-ID: <20020923184121.GA65376@carbon.berkeley.netdot.net> In-Reply-To: <441y7ksho4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20020922081120.GA54982@carbon.berkeley.netdot.net> <20020922181917.GB46345@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020922201441.GB54982@carbon.berkeley.netdot.net> <441y7ksho4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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I'm copying this to -hackers as well.
I tried setting the MD_NSECT to 307200 to accomodate my RAM disk, but
according to md(4):
At boot time the md driver will search for pre-loaded modules of type
`md_image' and instantiate a md device for each of these modules. The
type `mfs_root' is also allowed for backward compatibility. These
devices are backed by the RAM reserved by the loader(8), and as such not
limited by the malloc(9) size constraints.
I am preloading the images using the md_image variable in loader.conf, so
this documentation thinks I *should* be fine.
The kernel with MD_NSECT set to 307200 still failed to boot with my 128MB
md_image.
I'm attaching my kernel config.
-nick
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:08:11PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Nicholas Esborn <nick@netdot.net> writes:
>
> > I've tried this on two machines:
> >
> > 1 4.7-RC w/ 512 MB of RAM
> > 2 5.0-CURRENT w/ 256 MB of RAM
> >
> > Both behave the same way with a ~128MB md_image.
>
> Did you check the manual? It says: "The default maximum size of a md
> disk backed by malloc(9) is 20,000 sectors of 512 bytes each. This
> can be changed with the kernel option MD_NSECT."
>
> > -nick
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:19:18AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:11:20AM -0700, Nicholas Esborn wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I've been trying to boot a kernel and a preloaded md_image of about 128MB.
> > > >
> > > > The kernel and image load, and then about a quarter of a second after the
> > > > kernel executes, before any text even prints, the machine reboots.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone had better luck with large md_image root filesystems?
> > >
> > > You forgot to mention how much RAM you have, and what FreeBSD version.
--
Nicholas Esborn
Unix Systems Administrator
Berkeley, California
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#
# COPPER
# Tue Apr 23 05:41:01 GMT 2002
# nick
#
# Based on $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.246.2.40 2002/03/27 02:16:26 dd Exp $
machine i386
cpu I686_CPU
ident COPPERX
maxusers 0
options HZ=1000 #increase clock resolution for polling
options INET #InterNETworking
options INET6 #IPv6 communications protocols
options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!]
options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support
options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories
options MFS #Memory Filesystem
options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device
options MD_NSECT=307200 #Maxium MD size
options NFS #Network Filesystem
options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, NFS required
options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem
options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem
options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required
options PROCFS #Process filesystem
options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options SCSI_DELAY=15000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console
options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor
options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor
options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support
options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores
options P1003_1B #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
options ICMP_BANDLIM #Rate limit bad replies
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
options CPU_ENABLE_SSE
options CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK
#options BOOTP
#options BOOTP_NFSROOT
#options BOOTP_NFSV3
#options BOOTP_COMPAT
options IPSEC
options IPSEC_ESP
options IPSEC_DEBUG
options IPFILTER
options IPFILTER_LOG
options DEVICE_POLLING
device isa
device pci
# Floppy drives
device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2
device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
# ATA and ATAPI devices
device ata
device atadisk # ATA disk drives
device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
device atapist # ATAPI tape drives
options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering
# SCSI Controllers
device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices
# SCSI peripherals
device scbus # SCSI bus (required)
device da # Direct Access (disks)
device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc)
device cd # CD
device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD
device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1
device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12
device vga0 at isa?
# splash screen/screen saver
pseudo-device splash
# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100
# Floating point support - do not disable.
device npx0 at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13
# Serial (COM) ports
device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4
device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3
# Parallel port
device ppc0 at isa? irq 7
device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required)
device lpt # Printer
#device plip # TCP/IP over parallel
device ppi # Parallel port interface device
#device vpo # Requires scbus and da
# PCI Ethernet NICs.
device de # DEC/Intel DC21x4x (``Tulip'')
# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
device miibus # MII bus support
device dc # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
device fxp # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)
device vr # VIA Rhine, Rhine II
device xl # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')
# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
pseudo-device loop # Network loopback
pseudo-device ether # Ethernet support
pseudo-device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
pseudo-device md # Memory "disks"
# The `bpf' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
pseudo-device bpf #Berkeley packet filter
# USB support
device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface
device ohci # OHCI PCI->USB interface
device usb # USB Bus (required)
device ugen # Generic
device uhid # "Human Interface Devices"
device ukbd # Keyboard
device ulpt # Printer
device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
device ums # Mouse
# USB Ethernet, requires mii
device aue # ADMtek USB ethernet
device cue # CATC USB ethernet
device kue # Kawasaki LSI USB ethernet
device smbus
device iicbus
device iicbb
device ic
device iic
device iicsmb
device smb
device viapm
#device pcm
device bktr
help
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