On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:54:12PM +0100, Robert Peichaer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 04:15:50PM -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 09:39:57PM +0100, Robert Peichaer wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 08:33:21PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > On 2012/12/14 17:41, Brad Smith wrote: > > > > > Here is an updated diff for 1.3.0 which fixes a crashing > > > > > issue which affected OpenBSD. Still looking for any feedback. > > > > > > > > It doesn't crash now, but compared to 1.2.2 it's really badly > > > > slow booting. Not timed but it seems to take 5-10x as long just > > > > to load the kernel from disk. > > > > > > Hi Brad > > > > > > I'm using 1.3.0 without problems in a netboot scenario for testing > > > installer changes but have the same issue, that it takes ages to > > > boot. Although I've to say, that it took quite long before too. > > > > Interesting... do you see any indication that there might be an > > issue with interrupts such as an interrupt storm? > > > > systat looks like this, during "normal" work: > > 7 users Load 0.30 1.00 0.77 Tue Dec 25 22:42:07 > 2012 > > memory totals (in KB) PAGING SWAPPING Interrupts > real virtual free in out in out 692 total > Active 743568 743568 2271936 ops 400 clock > All 1591184 1591184 6516908 pages 264 ipi > 1 acpi0 > > After starting qemu until the the copyright message appears, the interrupts > are around these numbers. Don't know, if this is considered an interrupt > storm. > > 7 users Load 0.52 0.66 0.66 Tue Dec 25 22:45:43 > 2012 > > memory totals (in KB) PAGING SWAPPING Interrupts > real virtual free in out in out 2637 total > Active 695464 695464 2356372 ops 396 clock > All 1506748 1506748 6601344 pages 2181 ipi > > > >> OpenBSD/amd64 PXEBOOT 3.19 > booting tftp:/bsd: 3046624+925308+2878360+0+531440 [80+327744+212040]=0xb8ebc8 > entry point at 0x1001e0 [7205c766, 34000004, 24448b12, c638a304] > Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > Copyright (c) 1995-2012 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org > > OpenBSD 5.2-current (RAMDISK_CD) #30: Tue Dec 25 22:38:09 CET 2012 > r...@x201.my.domain:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD > > > "it takes ages" translated into numbers means, that from starting > qemu until the copyright messages it takes 1 min 10 sec. The rest > of to boot process needs another 20 seconds until the install propmt, > which I'd consider "normal". Maybe this is normal and I'm just too > impatient?
I meant is there an interrupt storm with OpenBSD running under QEMU, not the system hosting QEMU. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
