I must have missed something here. What's the problem that causes contigmalloc to be called here? If this is to do with > 4GB of memory, that was fixed in -CURRENT over a month ago.
-----Original Message----- From: Ganbold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 10:28 PM To: Kris Kennaway Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant ML370 G4) 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? Is there any known solution? In any case I will try first RELENG_6 then CURRENT on this machine. thanks, Ganbold > Kris _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
