Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:41:11 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= <johan@stromnet.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD with a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC? Message-ID: <118EDA90-D7D7-4A07-B7D2-3710384308D1@stromnet.org> In-Reply-To: <C8AEA7B4-3E12-43A7-A618-F35E74C1511C@stromnet.org> References: <C8AEA7B4-3E12-43A7-A618-F35E74C1511C@stromnet.org>
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On Sep 3, 2006, at 14:13 , Johan Ström wrote: > Hi > > I'm about to get a "new" server... In this case what I'm looking at > is a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC mobo with nForce3 250Gb chipset, and a AMD > 64 3200+ Venice S939. > > Does anyone have any experience with FreeBSD (6.1) and this mobo/ > chipset? Does the network work? How good? SATA? Any stability/ > performance issues? > > I did notice it was mentioned on http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ > amd64/motherboards.html on 5.4 with the only comment "Sound and USB > untested.".. So.. anyone got more detailed experience than that? > > Thanks :) > -- > Johan Ström > johan@stromnet.org > Hi again, I got the mobo now and everything I've tested seems to work fine, network (Marvell Gigabit Ethernet) works perfect (altough just using 100mbit, havent tested gig), and sata seems to work.. Somewhat... Thats part of why I post this.. I got two disks plugged in currently, two pieces of ad4: 286187MB <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC1G10> at ata2-master SATA150 (ad4 and ad6) on one SATA each... When I only access ad4 (the system disk) and dont touch ad6 (the old system disk, moving some data form there now.. soon to be gmirrored with ad4) it works fine. But as soon as i start to transer data from ad6 to ad4 (or rather, from ad4s1f to gm0s1f of which ad6 is provider), the system becomes veeerrry slow... Its still usable but it takes several seconds (sometimes as much as 10-20) to ie exectue a simple command like ls, top, su... gstat reports speeds of around 30MB/s: dT: 0.501 flag_I 500000us sizeof 288 i -1 L(q) ops/s r/s kBps ms/r w/s kBps ms/w %busy Name 17 395 12 200 577.2 383 49059 8.5 99.2| ad4 17 395 12 200 577.2 383 49059 8.5 99.2| mirror/gm0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad4s1 17 395 12 200 577.2 383 49059 8.5 99.2| mirror/gm0s1 0 387 387 49570 1.1 0 0 0.0 43.0| ad6 3 2 2 32 583.1 0 0 0.0 116.5| mirror/gm0s1a 1 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| mirror/gm0s1b 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| mirror/gm0s1c 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| mirror/gm0s1d 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| mirror/gm0s1e 13 393 10 168 576.0 383 49059 8.5 95.3| mirror/gm0s1f 0 387 387 49570 1.1 0 0 0.0 43.2| ad6s1 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad6s1a 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad6s1b 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad6s1c 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad6s1d 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad6s1e 0 387 387 49570 1.1 0 0 0.0 44.0| ad6s1f Those busy figures.. on the gmirror they fly up to > 100% all the time and are red.. on the ad6 figures they are 40-50% all the time (during copy that is).. Any ideas? dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p7 #0: Wed Sep 20 09:21:41 CEST 2006 admin@elfi.stromnet.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ELFI Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (2009.79-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x20ff0 Stepping = 0 Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE, MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> Features2=0x1<SSE3> AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1024299008 (976 MB) ACPI APIC Table: <Nvidia AWRDACPI> ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: <Nvidia AWRDACPI> on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff,0xcf0-0xcf3 on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 agp0: <NVIDIA nForce3-250 AGP Controller> mem 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 1.1 (no driver attached) ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfd005000-0xfd005fff irq 20 at device 2.0 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfd000000-0xfd000fff irq 21 at device 2.1 on pci0 ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1: SMM does not respond, resetting usb1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered ehci0: <NVIDIA nForce3 250 USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfd001000-0xfd0010ff irq 22 at device 2.2 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: EHCI version 1.0 usb2: companion controllers, 4 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2: <NVIDIA nForce3 250 USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0 usb2: USB revision 2.0 uhub2: nVidia EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 6.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: <nVidia nForce3 Pro UDMA133 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f at device 8.0 on pci0 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 atapci1: <nVidia nForce3 Pro SATA150 controller> port 0x9f0-0x9f7,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x970-0x977,0xb70-0xb73,0xdc00-0xdc0f, 0xe000-0xe07f irq 21 at device 10.0 on pci0 ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1 pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 11.0 on pci0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 14.0 on pci0 pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 pci2: <display, VGA> at device 10.0 (no driver attached) skc0: <Marvell Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xa400-0xa4ff mem 0xfc000000-0xfc003fff irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci2 skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. (0x9) sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0 sk0: Ethernet address: 00:14:85:21:c4:44 miibus0: <MII bus> on sk0 e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> on miibus0 e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST] sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2009790446 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff80654f90, 0) error 6 ad4: 286187MB <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC1G10> at ata2-master SATA150 elfi# gmirror list Geom name: gm0 State: COMPLETE Components: 1 Balance: round-robin Slice: 4096 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 316220990 Providers: 1. Name: mirror/gm0 Mediasize: 300089646080 (279G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r5w5e6 Consumers: 1. Name: ad4 Mediasize: 300089646592 (279G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 3833124755 I just saw http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/installation- amd64.html says: If you have an machine based on an nVidia nForce3 Pro-150, you MUST use the BIOS setup to disable the IO APIC. If you do not have an option to do this, you will likely have to disable ACPI instead. There are bugs in the Pro-150 chipset that we have not found a workaround for yet. Could this affect? Might try that... Thanks Johan > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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