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

[Ganbold]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:27:31PM +0900, Ganbold wrote:
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>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:56:57PM +0900, Ganbold wrote:
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>>>> 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?
>>     
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> Please explain what you mean: why do you have to manually press "Enter"?
>   
It is not booting, "-" appears on screen and waits forever. When I press 
"Enter"
key on keyboard it starts booting.

Ganbold

> Kris
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