On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to suggest to try 8.2. > > It is my experience that the different version behave very different on the > same hardware. It does not mean that the newer version is the better. As an > example, I have a machine here on 7.x as 8.0 did not support the USB hardware > found. After a machine works with a branch, I will stick with this branch on > the specific machine until the end of support for the branch. This make life > much easier and keeps surprises away.
While 8.2 has some nice features we are sticking with 7.x for the time being. Also I did not see any improvement using 8.2v. > > On Thursday 17 May 2012 07:34:50 Mark Saad wrote: >> All >> I am setting up 3 sun x4440 with freebsd 7.3 amd64 . The severs have 4x >> 4-core opterons and 128G of ram each . Once the servers boot they are a good >> fit for what we are doing and preform well . The odd thing I am seeing is a >> long delay in boot up . Once in the initial loading of the kernel at the "|" >> for 1-2 mins . Then again shortly after printing the kernel banner "freebsd >> 7.3-release etc etc etc" . This delay is about 1-2 mins as well. So my >> question does any one know what I could do to speed up the boot up ? I >> suspect the first delay is due to a serial device probe the second is a >> mystery . also the bios load up time is about 5 mins on this box does anyone >> have any ideas on speeding that up ? > > Does this machine have SCSI or SAS hardware? If the controllers are there but > not drives are installed, a GENERIC kernel will wait for some time for SCSI > to settle. If you deactivate SCSI or reduce the waiting time, at least a part > of the problem is solved. > Its not SCSI / SAS probe time its well before that part of the boot up stage. > Erich >> >> ---- >> mark saad >> Nonesuch@longcount.org_______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> >> > Anyone figured out how to add 6 more hours to the day ? I could use a 30hr day. -- mark saad | nones...@longcount.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
