ProLiant DL360 G4p: ciss(4) boottime oddity

[Geoff Buckingham]

I have also seen this and there has been a previous brief thread.

My own observations are this appears to be limited to machines with ciss
controllers. The length of the delay seems proportional to the number of
geom modules loaded. Geom_label seems to have a significant effect
without it you will probably have a shorter, but still considerable
delay.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Evgueni V.
Gavrilov
Sent: 19 October 2006 04:31
To: freebsd-proliant at FreeBSD.org
Cc: Mike Smith
Subject: ProLiant DL360 G4p: ciss(4) boottime oddity

ehlo

I've got several ProLiant DL360 G4p servers running RELENG_6.
Everything is ok except boottime: boot process becomes frozen for
several minutes after these messages

Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Oct 18
16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0: <COMPAQ RAID 1  VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct
Access SCSI-0 device Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0: 135.168MB/s
transfers Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0: 286095MB (585922680 512
byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 36472C)

Several minutes later boot process proceeds

Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is
iso9660/FreeBSD_Install.
Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a

One of those servers (DL360 G4p) still out of production, so I can
utilize it for investigation on the trouble. Are there any
developers/hackers who interested in solving of the trouble?

Also I would be glad to receive advises since I ain't kernel hacker :)

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