Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 01:33:32 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> Cc: mj@feral.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, mjacob@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant ML370 G4) Message-ID: <20060403053331.GA60319@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4430B243.3060405@micom.mng.net> References: <442BBDED.4060804@micom.mng.net> <7579f7fb0603312322y46d87807t2e13af72bae45d96@mail.gmail.com> <44309D09.9040503@micom.mng.net> <20060403040807.GA58859@xor.obsecurity.org> <4430B243.3060405@micom.mng.net>
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--gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:27:31PM +0900, Ganbold wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:56:57PM +0900, Ganbold wrote: > > =20 > >>Here is dmes.boot and pciconf output on FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE. > >>Boot takes 3-4 minutes after "da0: 140014MB (286749488 512 byte sectors= :=20 > >>255H 63S/T 17849C)" line and continues. > >>I will try to upgrade again to 6.1-PRERELEASE later today. I did before= =20 > >>and the problem still was there. > >> =20 > > > >The mpt driver calls contigmalloc in a way that takes ages to run > >because it was poorly rewritten some time ago. Scottl partially fixed > >it on 7.0 (after the problem became much worse there - it was taking > >over 40 minutes instead of 4) but the change is not complete enough to > >back-port yet. > > =20 > I see. Yes, it eventually becomes up after 3-4 minutes. > However what annoying is every time I reboot/restart the server > I have to manually press "Enter" key. How can I resolve this issue? Please explain what you mean: why do you have to manually press "Enter"? Kris --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEMLOrWry0BWjoQKURAg4QAJ4hwxDn3PfVuCLYjug5pViupbGsqgCfe8gF Stbn1UITtlrU3DSCt96B/uQ= =x+XQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gKMricLos+KVdGMg--
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