From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 3 05:34:46 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 894D316A41F; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 05:34:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Received: from ns1.feral.com (ns1.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809C143D49; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 05:34:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Received: from win2k (win2k.in1.lcl [192.168.1.2]) by ns1.feral.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k335YiZH033727; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) From: "Matthew Jacob" To: "'Ganbold'" , "'Kris Kennaway'" Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:38:29 -0700 Organization: Feral Software Message-ID: <000001c656e0$d6da1f80$0201a8c0@win2k> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <4430B243.3060405@micom.mng.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, mjacob@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant ML370 G4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mj@feral.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:34:46 -0000 I must have missed something here. What's the problem that causes contigmalloc to be called here? If this is to do with > 4GB of memory, = that was fixed in -CURRENT over a month ago. -----Original Message----- From: Ganbold [mailto:ganbold@micom.mng.net]=20 Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 10:28 PM To: Kris Kennaway Cc: mj@feral.com; mjacob@FreeBSD.org; scottl@samsco.org; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant = ML370 G4) 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? Is there any known solution? In any case I will try first RELENG_6 then CURRENT on this machine. thanks, Ganbold > Kris