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.> Progress indicated by \ | / - characters is changing by speed of 1 > character per 2 seconds. > The whole boot process takes about 10 minutes. > > 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! -- pi at opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 4 years to go !
Kurt Jaeger wrote on 07/14/2016 18:11:> 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. > >> Progress indicated by \ | / - characters is changing by speed of 1 >> character per 2 seconds. >> The whole boot process takes about 10 minutes. >> >> 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!If there will not be 10.4 Release, there is nothing to fix, because 11.0 works, I know... But still - is this something already known and fixed in 11 loader or is it something fixed by coincidence? Can it be covered by some regression test? Miroslav Lachman
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 !