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 Str=F6m wrote: > Hi > > I'm about to get a "new" server... In this case what I'm looking at =20= > is a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC mobo with nForce3 250Gb chipset, and a AMD =20 > 64 3200+ Venice S939. > > Does anyone have any experience with FreeBSD (6.1) and this mobo/=20 > chipset? Does the network work? How good? SATA? Any stability/=20 > performance issues? > > I did notice it was mentioned on http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/=20 > amd64/motherboards.html on 5.4 with the only comment "Sound and USB =20= > untested.".. So.. anyone got more detailed experience than that? > > Thanks :) > -- > Johan Str=F6m > johan@stromnet.org > Hi again, I got the mobo now and everything I've tested seems to work fine, =20 network (Marvell Gigabit Ethernet) works perfect (altough just using =20 100mbit, havent tested gig), and sata seems to work.. Somewhat... =20 Thats part of why I post this.. I got two disks plugged in currently, two pieces of ad4: 286187MB =20 <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC1G10> at ata2-master SATA150 (ad4 and ad6) on one =20= SATA each... When I only access ad4 (the system disk) and dont touch =20 ad6 (the old system disk, moving some data form there now.. soon to =20 be gmirrored with ad4) it works fine. But as soon as i start to transer data from ad6 to ad4 (or rather, =20 from ad4s1f to gm0s1f of which ad6 is provider), the system becomes =20 veeerrry slow... Its still usable but it takes several seconds =20 (sometimes as much as 10-20) to ie exectue a simple command like ls, =20 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| =20 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| =20 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| =20 mirror/gm0s1a 1 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| =20 mirror/gm0s1b 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| =20 mirror/gm0s1c 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| =20 mirror/gm0s1d 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| =20 mirror/gm0s1e 13 393 10 168 576.0 383 49059 8.5 95.3| =20 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 =20 time and are red.. on the ad6 figures they are 40-50% all the time =20 (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 =20 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 =3D "AuthenticAMD" Id =3D 0x20ff0 Stepping =3D 0 =20 Features=3D0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,= =20 MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> Features2=3D0x1<SSE3> AMD Features=3D0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow> AMD Features2=3D0x1<LAHF> real memory =3D 1073676288 (1023 MB) avail memory =3D 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 =20 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 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 =20 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 =20 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 =20 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 =20 0x9f0-0x9f7,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x970-0x977,0xb70-0xb73,0xdc00-0xdc0f,=20 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 =20 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, =20 1000baseTX-FDX, auto fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on =20= acpi0 fdc0: [FAST] sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 =20 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 =20 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=3D0x300> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on =20 isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2009790446 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff80654f90, 0) =20 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-=20 amd64.html says: If you have an machine based on an nVidia nForce3 Pro-150, you MUST =20 use the BIOS setup to disable the IO APIC. If you do not have an =20 option to do this, you will likely have to disable ACPI instead. =20 There are bugs in the Pro-150 chipset that we have not found a =20 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-=20 > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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