Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3

2016-03-08 Thread krad
Im not aware of any requirement to install beadm. As long as you put stuff in the /ROOT/benam format beastie will pick it up. You are free to manually clone and promote your datasets etc, its just miles easier to use beadm On 8 March 2016 at 09:46, Matthias Gamsjager wrote:

Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3

2016-03-08 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > > Its worth noting you can also select BEs from beastie now as well. > While this is a great feature I still find it strange that I have to > install a 3rd party app (beadm) to get FreeBSD core functionality (BE) . > Why not make it part of the OS? Similar to pkg: Because the

Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3

2016-03-08 Thread Matthias Gamsjager
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:17 AM, krad wrote: > Its worth noting you can also select BEs from beastie now as well. While this is a great feature I still find it strange that I have to install a 3rd party app (beadm) to get FreeBSD core functionality (BE) . Why not make it part

Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3

2016-03-08 Thread krad
Its worth noting you can also select BEs from beastie now as well. On 7 March 2016 at 22:21, Will Green wrote: > On 2016-03-07 17:24, Steven Hartland wrote: > >> On 07/03/2016 16:43, Will Green wrote: >> >>> On 4 Mar 2016, at 18:49, Mark Dixon

Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3

2016-03-07 Thread Larry Rosenman
On 2016-03-07 16:21, Will Green wrote: On 2016-03-07 17:24, Steven Hartland wrote: On 07/03/2016 16:43, Will Green wrote: On 4 Mar 2016, at 18:49, Mark Dixon wrote: Will Green sundivenetworks.com> writes: I am happy to test patches and/or current on this server if that

Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3

2016-03-07 Thread Will Green
On 2016-03-07 17:24, Steven Hartland wrote: On 07/03/2016 16:43, Will Green wrote: On 4 Mar 2016, at 18:49, Mark Dixon wrote: Will Green sundivenetworks.com> writes: I am happy to test patches and/or current on this server if that helps. If you want more details on the

Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3

2016-03-07 Thread Steven Hartland
On 07/03/2016 16:43, Will Green wrote: On 4 Mar 2016, at 18:49, Mark Dixon wrote: Will Green sundivenetworks.com> writes: I am happy to test patches and/or current on this server if that helps. If you want more details on the motherboard/system I have started a post on

Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3

2016-03-07 Thread Will Green
> On 4 Mar 2016, at 18:49, Mark Dixon wrote: > > Will Green sundivenetworks.com> writes: > >> I am happy to test patches and/or current on this server if that helps. If > you want more details on the >> motherboard/system I have started a post on it at >

Re: Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3

2016-03-04 Thread Mark Dixon
Will Green sundivenetworks.com> writes: > > I am happy to test patches and/or current on this server if that helps. If you want more details on the > motherboard/system I have started a post on it at http://buildwithbsd.org/hw/skylake_xeon_server.html > I've made the UEFI switch which worked

Skylake Loader Performance 10.3-BETA3

2016-03-03 Thread Will Green
Hello, I’ve been testing a new Skylake E3 Xeon server with 10.3-BETA3. The slow loader issue described on the forums https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/53511/ is still present. On my Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F motherboard with E3-1260L v5 it takes over ten minutes to get to kernel boot. After that