Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:38:29 -0700 From: "Matthew Jacob" <mj@feral.com> To: "'Ganbold'" <ganbold@micom.mng.net>, "'Kris Kennaway'" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, mjacob@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant ML370 G4) Message-ID: <000001c656e0$d6da1f80$0201a8c0@win2k> In-Reply-To: <4430B243.3060405@micom.mng.net>
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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
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