[OmniOS-discuss] Slow Drive Detection and boot-archive

Fri Jul 24 22:03:05 UTC 2015

Hi,

I've downgraded the cards (LSI 9211-8e) to v.19 and disabled their boot bios. But I'm still getting the 8 second per drive delay after the kernel loads. Any other ideas?

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Michael Talbott
Systems Administrator
La Jolla Institute

> On Jul 20, 2015, at 11:27 PM, Floris van Essen ..:: House of Ancients Amstafs ::.. <info at houseofancients.nl> wrote:
> 
> Michael,
> 
> I know v20 does cause lots of issue's.
> V19 , to the best of my knowledge doesn't contain any, so I would downgrade to v19
> 
> 
> Kr,
> 
> 
> Floris
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: OmniOS-discuss [mailto:omnios-discuss-bounces at lists.omniti.com] Namens Michael Talbott
> Verzonden: dinsdag 21 juli 2015 4:57
> Aan: Marion Hakanson <hakansom at ohsu.edu>
> CC: omnios-discuss <omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com>
> Onderwerp: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Slow Drive Detection and boot-archive
> 
> Thanks for the reply. The bios for the card is disabled already. The 8 second per drive scan happens after the kernel has already loaded and it is scanning for devices. I wonder if it's due to running newer firmware. I did update the cards to fw v.20.something before I moved to omnios. Is there a particular firmware version on the cards I should run to match OmniOS's drivers?
> 
> 
> ________________________
> Michael Talbott
> Systems Administrator
> La Jolla Institute
> 
>> On Jul 20, 2015, at 6:06 PM, Marion Hakanson <hakansom at ohsu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Michael,
>> 
>> I've not seen this;  I do have one system with 120 drives and it 
>> definitely does not have this problem.  A couple with 80+ drives are 
>> also free of this issue, though they are still running OpenIndiana.
>> 
>> One thing I pretty much always do here, is to disable the boot option 
>> in the LSI HBA's config utility (accessible from the during boot after 
>> the BIOS has started up).  I do this because I don't want the BIOS 
>> thinking it can boot from any of the external JBOD disks;  And also 
>> because I've had some system BIOS crashes when they tried to enumerate 
>> too many drives.  But, this all happens at the BIOS level, before the 
>> OS has even started up, so in theory it should not affect what you are 
>> seeing.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Marion
>> 
>> 
>> ================================================================
>> Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Slow Drive Detection and boot-archive
>> From: Michael Talbott <mtalbott at lji.org>
>> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:15:47 -0700
>> To: omnios-discuss <omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com>
>> 
>> Just realized my typo. I'm using this on my 90 and 180 drive systems:
>> 
>> # svccfg -s boot-archive setprop start/timeout_seconds=720 # svccfg -s 
>> boot-archive setprop start/timeout_seconds=1440
>> 
>> Seems like 8 seconds to detect each drive is pretty excessive.
>> 
>> Any ideas on how to speed that up?
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________
>> Michael Talbott
>> Systems Administrator
>> La Jolla Institute
>> 
>>> On Jul 17, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Michael Talbott <mtalbott at lji.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have multiple NAS servers I've moved to OmniOS and each of them have 90-180 4T disks. Everything has worked out pretty well for the most part. But I've come into an issue where when I reboot any of them, I'm getting boot-archive service timeouts happening. I found a workaround of increasing the timeout value which brings me to the following. As you can see below in a dmesg output, it's taking the kernel about 8 seconds to detect each of the drives. They're connected via a couple SAS2008 based LSI cards.
>>> 
>>> Is this normal?
>>> Is there a way to speed that up?
>>> 
>>> I've fixed my frustrating boot-archive timeout problem by adjusting the timeout value from the default of 60 seconds (I guess that'll work ok on systems with less than 8 drives?) to 8 seconds * 90 drives + a little extra time = 280 seconds (for the 90 drive systems). Which means it takes between 12-24 minutes to boot those machines up.
>>> 
>>> # svccfg -s boot-archive setprop start/timeout_seconds=280
>>> 
>>> I figure I can't be the only one. A little googling also revealed: 
>>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/4614 
>>> <https://www.illumos.org/issues/4614>
>>> 
>>> Jul 17 15:40:15 store2 genunix: [ID 583861 kern.info] sd29 at 
>>> mpt_sas3: unit-address w50000c0f0401bd43,0: w50000c0f0401bd43,0 Jul 
>>> 17 15:40:15 store2 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd29 is 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f0401bd4
>>> 3,0 Jul 17 15:40:16 store2 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f0401bd4
>>> 3,0 (sd29) online Jul 17 15:40:24 store2 genunix: [ID 583861 
>>> kern.info] sd30 at mpt_sas3: unit-address w50000c0f045679c3,0: 
>>> w50000c0f045679c3,0 Jul 17 15:40:24 store2 genunix: [ID 936769 
>>> kern.info] sd30 is 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f045679c
>>> 3,0 Jul 17 15:40:24 store2 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f045679c
>>> 3,0 (sd30) online Jul 17 15:40:33 store2 genunix: [ID 583861 
>>> kern.info] sd31 at mpt_sas3: unit-address w50000c0f045712b3,0: 
>>> w50000c0f045712b3,0 Jul 17 15:40:33 store2 genunix: [ID 936769 
>>> kern.info] sd31 is 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f045712b
>>> 3,0 Jul 17 15:40:33 store2 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f045712b
>>> 3,0 (sd31) online Jul 17 15:40:42 store2 genunix: [ID 583861 
>>> kern.info] sd32 at mpt_sas3: unit-address w50000c0f04571497,0: 
>>> w50000c0f04571497,0 Jul 17 15:40:42 store2 genunix: [ID 936769 
>>> kern.info] sd32 is 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f0457149
>>> 7,0 Jul 17 15:40:42 store2 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f0457149
>>> 7,0 (sd32) online Jul 17 15:40:50 store2 genunix: [ID 583861 
>>> kern.info] sd33 at mpt_sas3: unit-address w50000c0f042ac8eb,0: 
>>> w50000c0f042ac8eb,0 Jul 17 15:40:50 store2 genunix: [ID 936769 
>>> kern.info] sd33 is 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f042ac8e
>>> b,0 Jul 17 15:40:50 store2 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f042ac8e
>>> b,0 (sd33) online Jul 17 15:40:59 store2 genunix: [ID 583861 
>>> kern.info] sd34 at mpt_sas3: unit-address w50000c0f04571473,0: 
>>> w50000c0f04571473,0 Jul 17 15:40:59 store2 genunix: [ID 936769 
>>> kern.info] sd34 is 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f0457147
>>> 3,0 Jul 17 15:40:59 store2 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f0457147
>>> 3,0 (sd34) online Jul 17 15:41:08 store2 genunix: [ID 583861 
>>> kern.info] sd35 at mpt_sas3: unit-address w50000c0f042c636f,0: 
>>> w50000c0f042c636f,0 Jul 17 15:41:08 store2 genunix: [ID 936769 
>>> kern.info] sd35 is 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f042c636
>>> f,0 Jul 17 15:41:08 store2 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f042c636
>>> f,0 (sd35) online Jul 17 15:41:17 store2 genunix: [ID 583861 
>>> kern.info] sd36 at mpt_sas3: unit-address w50000c0f0401bf2f,0: 
>>> w50000c0f0401bf2f,0 Jul 17 15:41:17 store2 genunix: [ID 936769 
>>> kern.info] sd36 is 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f0401bf2
>>> f,0 Jul 17 15:41:17 store2 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f0401bf2
>>> f,0 (sd36) online Jul 17 15:41:25 store2 genunix: [ID 583861 
>>> kern.info] sd38 at mpt_sas3: unit-address w50000c0f0401bc1f,0: 
>>> w50000c0f0401bc1f,0 Jul 17 15:41:25 store2 genunix: [ID 936769 
>>> kern.info] sd38 is 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f0401bc1
>>> f,0 Jul 17 15:41:26 store2 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] 
>>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,e06 at 2,2/pci1000,3080 at 0/iport at f/disk at w50000c0f0401bc1
>>> f,0 (sd38) online
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________
>>> Michael Talbott
>>> Systems Administrator
>>> La Jolla Institute
>>> 
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