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. Kris
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