From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 23 16:43:16 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 CAF3F16A417; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:43:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johan@stromnet.org) Received: from pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE9C43D53; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:43:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johan@stromnet.org) Received: from elfi.stromnet.org (213.67.205.103) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.075) id 450708BC002E977D; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:43:15 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elfi.stromnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA9645062; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:43:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at stromnet.org Received: from elfi.stromnet.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (elfi.stromnet.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MixhoPB6mH07; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:42:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IPv6:2001:16d8:ff20:2:217:f2ff:fe41:3f1b] (jstrom-mb.wlan.v6.stromnet.org [IPv6:2001:16d8:ff20:2:217:f2ff:fe41:3f1b]) by elfi.stromnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8601D45061; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:42:32 +0200 (CEST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <118EDA90-D7D7-4A07-B7D2-3710384308D1@stromnet.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:41:11 +0200 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD with a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC? 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: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:43:16 -0000 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 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 Features2=3D0x1 AMD Features=3D0xe2500800 AMD Features2=3D0x1 real memory =3D 1073676288 (1023 MB) avail memory =3D 1024299008 (976 MB) ACPI APIC Table: ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: 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: on acpi0 acpi_button0: on acpi0 pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff,0xcf0-0xcf3 on acpi0 pci0: on pcib0 agp0: mem 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff =20 at device 0.0 on pci0 isab0: at device 1.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 pci0: at device 1.1 (no driver attached) ohci0: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: at device 6.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: port =20 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f at device 8.0 on pci0 ata0: on atapci0 ata1: on atapci0 atapci1: port =20 0x9f0-0x9f7,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x970-0x977,0xb70-0xb73,0xdc00-0xdc0f,=20 0xe000-0xe07f irq 21 at device 10.0 on pci0 ata2: on atapci1 ata3: on atapci1 pcib1: at device 11.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pcib2: at device 14.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib2 pci2: at device 10.0 (no driver attached) skc0: port 0xa400-0xa4ff mem =20 0xfc000000-0xfc003fff irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci2 skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. (0x9) sk0: on skc0 sk0: Ethernet address: 00:14:85:21:c4:44 miibus0: on sk0 e1000phy0: on miibus0 e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, =20 1000baseTX-FDX, auto fdc0: 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: 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: on ppc0 plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 atkbdc0: port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] orm0: at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=3D0x300> vga0: 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 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"