Hi!> > I installed FreeBSD 10.3 on brand new machine Supermicro X11SSW-F. It > > sits on top of 4x 1TB Samsung SSDs on ZFS RAIDZ2. > > > > The booting is painfully slow from BTX to menu to kernel loading. > > I have the same problem on a Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F.> > I found this blog post solving the same problem > > http://smyck.net/2016/06/15/freebsd-slow-zfs-bootloader/ > > I'll test that solution. Thanks for the pointer!Tested, works -- I took the 12.0-CURRENT boot files: gpart bootcode -b pmbr ada0 gpart -p gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 cp zfsloader /boot/zfsloader Before: ca. 660 seconds to reboot, now 77 seconds to reboot. Now, if someone could explain, why... -- pi at opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 4 years to go !
On 2016-07-14 13:36, Kurt Jaeger wrote:> Hi! > >> > I installed FreeBSD 10.3 on brand new machine Supermicro X11SSW-F. It >> > sits on top of 4x 1TB Samsung SSDs on ZFS RAIDZ2. >> > >> > The booting is painfully slow from BTX to menu to kernel loading. >> >> I have the same problem on a Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F. > >> > I found this blog post solving the same problem >> > http://smyck.net/2016/06/15/freebsd-slow-zfs-bootloader/ >> >> I'll test that solution. Thanks for the pointer! > > Tested, works -- I took the 12.0-CURRENT boot files: > > gpart bootcode -b pmbr ada0 > gpart -p gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 > cp zfsloader /boot/zfsloader > > Before: ca. 660 seconds to reboot, now 77 seconds to reboot. > > Now, if someone could explain, why...there were some buffering changes and other stuff in the boot blocks/loader. -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 E-Mail: ler at lerctr.org US Mail: 17716 Limpia Crk, Round Rock, TX 78664-7281
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:> Before: ca. 660 seconds to reboot, now 77 seconds to reboot. > Now, if someone could explain, why... >https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2016-June/084865.html -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b at gmail.com ballbery at sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net