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

[Ganbold]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:15:54PM +0900, Ganbold wrote:
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>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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"?
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>> It is not booting, "-" appears on screen and waits forever. When I press 
>> "Enter"
>> key on keyboard it starts booting.
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> That's a completely separate issue.  I don't know why it's happening
> though.
>   

Same problem exists under FreeBSD-6.1-PRERELEASE, machine is not 
booting, "-" appears on screen and waits forever. When I press "Enter" 
key on keyboard it starts booting.
On CURRENT even worse, I tested yesterday's CURRENT, boot panics saying 
CPU class not configured.

Ganbold


> Kris
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