contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant ML370 G4)

[Kris Kennaway]

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:
> >  
> >>Here is dmes.boot and pciconf output on FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE.
> >>Boot takes 3-4 minutes after "da0: 140014MB (286749488 512 byte sectors: 
> >>255H 63S/T 17849C)" line and continues.
> >>I will try to upgrade again to 6.1-PRERELEASE later today. I did before 
> >>and the problem still was there.
> >>    
> >
> >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.
> >  
> 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

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