Re: extremely slow to get to loader

From: Boris Samorodov <bsam_at_passap.ru>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:50:13 +0300
24.04.16 20:46, Larry Rosenman пишет:
> 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.
> 
> 
Seems, I'm at the same boat. The system is a remote Supermicro server:
--- ping after reboot ---
% ping -i 60 srv
PING srv (X.X.X.X): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from X.X.X.X: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=2.526 ms
64 bytes from X.X.X.X: icmp_seq=14 ttl=59 time=2.735 ms
--- dmesg messages ---
[...]
Apr 27 14:59:34 srv shutdown: reboot by bsam:
Apr 27 14:59:35 srv kernel: .
Apr 27 14:59:56 srv syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Apr 27 15:12:33 srv syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Apr 27 15:12:33 srv kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2016 The FreeBSD Project.
Apr 27 15:12:33 srv kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988,
1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
Apr 27 15:12:33 srv kernel: The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.
Apr 27 15:12:33 srv kernel: FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The
FreeBSD Foundation.
Apr 27 15:12:33 srv kernel: FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #41 r298696: Wed Apr 27
14:50:53 MSK 2016
[...]
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This is a zfs-root system with geli-enabled swap partitions.
Other than boot the system seem to be fine.

-- 
WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam)
FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
Received on Wed Apr 27 2016 - 10:50:20 UTC

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