Re: extremely slow to get to loader

On 2016-04-21 20:56, Johannes Dieterich wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org> 
> wrote:
>> On 2016-04-21 10:46, Johannes Dieterich wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> with r298385, I observe extremely long times from turning on my 
>>> laptop
>>> to reach loader. This is a regression compared to a roughly 1 week 
>>> old
>>> CURRENT.
>>> 
>>> This is an AMD A12-8800B laptop booting in legacy mode into a 
>>> ZFS+GELI setup.
>>> 
>>> Please let me know how I can help to solve this issue.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Johannes
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>> 
>> Can you describe where exactly it is slow?
> Yes, it hangs after "BIOS drive C: is disk 0" for a good 3 minutes
> before it eventually continues.
> 
>> Once you get to the loader menu (the beastie menu), can you choose the
>> option to go to the loader prompt, and type:
>> bcachestat
>> 
>> And provide the output of that.
> Here we go (w/o mistakes I hope...):
> cache blocks: 32768
> cache blocksz: 572
> unit cache blocks: 32768
> cached units: 1
> 1162 ops 0 bypasses 12109 hits 739 misses
> 
> Thanks so much for the response!
> 
> Johannes
I'm seeing similar, PLUS the kernel seems(!) to not continue on to the 
RC scripts
after mount root.

(BIOS BOOT).

I reverted to an older kernel and boot block and zfsloader to get up.


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