FreeBSD with a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC?
Johan Ström
johan at stromnet.org
Sat Sep 23 09:43:16 PDT 2006
On Sep 3, 2006, at 14:13 , Johan Ström wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm about to get a "new" server... In this case what I'm looking at
> is a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC mobo with nForce3 250Gb chipset, and a AMD
> 64 3200+ Venice S939.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with FreeBSD (6.1) and this mobo/
> chipset? Does the network work? How good? SATA? Any stability/
> performance issues?
>
> I did notice it was mentioned on http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/
> amd64/motherboards.html on 5.4 with the only comment "Sound and USB
> untested.".. So.. anyone got more detailed experience than that?
>
> Thanks :)
> --
> Johan Ström
> johan at stromnet.org
>
Hi again,
I got the mobo now and everything I've tested seems to work fine,
network (Marvell Gigabit Ethernet) works perfect (altough just using
100mbit, havent tested gig), and sata seems to work.. Somewhat...
Thats part of why I post this..
I got two disks plugged in currently, two pieces of ad4: 286187MB
<Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC1G10> at ata2-master SATA150 (ad4 and ad6) on one
SATA each... When I only access ad4 (the system disk) and dont touch
ad6 (the old system disk, moving some data form there now.. soon to
be gmirrored with ad4) it works fine.
But as soon as i start to transer data from ad6 to ad4 (or rather,
from ad4s1f to gm0s1f of which ad6 is provider), the system becomes
veeerrry slow... Its still usable but it takes several seconds
(sometimes as much as 10-20) to ie exectue a simple command like ls,
top, su...
gstat reports speeds of around 30MB/s:
dT: 0.501 flag_I 500000us sizeof 288 i -1
L(q) ops/s r/s kBps ms/r w/s kBps ms/w %busy Name
17 395 12 200 577.2 383 49059 8.5 99.2| ad4
17 395 12 200 577.2 383 49059 8.5 99.2|
mirror/gm0
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad4s1
17 395 12 200 577.2 383 49059 8.5 99.2|
mirror/gm0s1
0 387 387 49570 1.1 0 0 0.0 43.0| ad6
3 2 2 32 583.1 0 0 0.0 116.5|
mirror/gm0s1a
1 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0|
mirror/gm0s1b
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0|
mirror/gm0s1c
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0|
mirror/gm0s1d
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0|
mirror/gm0s1e
13 393 10 168 576.0 383 49059 8.5 95.3|
mirror/gm0s1f
0 387 387 49570 1.1 0 0 0.0 43.2| ad6s1
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad6s1a
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad6s1b
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad6s1c
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad6s1d
0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0| ad6s1e
0 387 387 49570 1.1 0 0 0.0 44.0| ad6s1f
Those busy figures.. on the gmirror they fly up to > 100% all the
time and are red.. on the ad6 figures they are 40-50% all the time
(during copy that is)..
Any ideas?
dmesg:
Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights
reserved.
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p7 #0: Wed Sep 20 09:21:41 CEST 2006
admin at elfi.stromnet.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ELFI
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (2009.79-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x20ff0 Stepping = 0
Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,
MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
Features2=0x1<SSE3>
AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1024299008 (976 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <Nvidia AWRDACPI>
ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: <Nvidia AWRDACPI> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff,0xcf0-0xcf3 on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <NVIDIA nForce3-250 AGP Controller> mem 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff
at device 0.0 on pci0
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 1.1 (no driver attached)
ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfd005000-0xfd005fff irq
20 at device 2.0 on pci0
ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting
usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfd000000-0xfd000fff irq
21 at device 2.1 on pci0
ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb1: SMM does not respond, resetting
usb1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
ehci0: <NVIDIA nForce3 250 USB 2.0 controller> mem
0xfd001000-0xfd0010ff irq 22 at device 2.2 on pci0
ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb2: EHCI version 1.0
usb2: companion controllers, 4 ports each: usb0 usb1
usb2: <NVIDIA nForce3 250 USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
usb2: USB revision 2.0
uhub2: nVidia EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 6.0 (no driver attached)
atapci0: <nVidia nForce3 Pro UDMA133 controller> port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f at device 8.0 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
atapci1: <nVidia nForce3 Pro SATA150 controller> port
0x9f0-0x9f7,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x970-0x977,0xb70-0xb73,0xdc00-0xdc0f,
0xe000-0xe07f irq 21 at device 10.0 on pci0
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 11.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 14.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
pci2: <display, VGA> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)
skc0: <Marvell Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xa400-0xa4ff mem
0xfc000000-0xfc003fff irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci2
skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. (0x9)
sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0
sk0: Ethernet address: 00:14:85:21:c4:44
miibus0: <MII bus> on sk0
e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> on miibus0
e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on
acpi0
fdc0: [FAST]
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10
on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7
drq 3 on acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2009790446 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff80654f90, 0)
error 6
ad4: 286187MB <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC1G10> at ata2-master SATA150
elfi# gmirror list
Geom name: gm0
State: COMPLETE
Components: 1
Balance: round-robin
Slice: 4096
Flags: NONE
GenID: 0
SyncID: 1
ID: 316220990
Providers:
1. Name: mirror/gm0
Mediasize: 300089646080 (279G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r5w5e6
Consumers:
1. Name: ad4
Mediasize: 300089646592 (279G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r1w1e1
State: ACTIVE
Priority: 0
Flags: DIRTY
GenID: 0
SyncID: 1
ID: 3833124755
I just saw http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/installation-
amd64.html says:
If you have an machine based on an nVidia nForce3 Pro-150, you MUST
use the BIOS setup to disable the IO APIC. If you do not have an
option to do this, you will likely have to disable ACPI instead.
There are bugs in the Pro-150 chipset that we have not found a
workaround for yet.
Could this affect? Might try that...
Thanks
Johan
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