Server takes long tiime to boot

[devarshi]

Hi,
My server(B.11.11 U 9000/800) takes very long time to boot, its not that the server normally takes long time to boot but there is a particular stage after which the server takes 15 mins to come out of that stage, but after that the boot behaviour of the server is normal. Below given is the stage where the server takes 15-16 mins to come out.
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Initializing boot Device.
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) Revision 4
Boot Path Initialized.
HARD Booted.
ISL Revision A.00.43 Apr 12, 2000
ISL booting hpux -lq
Boot
: disk(1/0/0/3/0.6.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix
11407360 + 2486272 + 22999848 start 0x200068
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After this message appears on the console the server takes 15 mins to come to the next stage. Can anyone please tell me as to what exactely the server does internally after this step?

[Jeeshan]

Hi

Did you found anything wrong in MP eventlog?

and also check the /etc/rc.log, /var/opt/resmon/log/event.log files.

[SUDHAKAR_18]

Hi,

Is syslog is containing any errors after system boot?
what is the memory/swap configuration of system.

Wheather latest updates are installed.

Regards,
SHR

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

When did this start to happen? Was it OK previously?

As mentioned by Ahsan above, did you find any error message in the GSP console?


revert!
kind regards
yogeeraj

[Torsten.]

"Can anyone please tell me as to what exactely the server does internally after this step?"

The system will load the kernel. The kernel will inspect all the connected hardware and load the drivers.

Do you have any open fiber channel ports by chance?

I already saw a system with about ~40 open FC ports - it took ~30min at the same stage.

[Torsten.]

You will probably see the same if the server is connected (zoned) to a very large SAN, but has no visible devices there. In this case it is just searching all the time.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

There may be nothing wrong.

Tell me more about the server.

model

how much memory.

SAN environment.

SEP

[devarshi]

I have checked all the logs including MP logs, syslogs every thing but nothing is there.

Details of the server are as follows:-
===========
Basic Memory Description

Module Type: MEMORY
Total Configured Memory : 32768 MB
Page Size: 4096 Bytes

Memory interleaving is supported on this machine and is ON.
==============
SAN is XP10K
==============

[devarshi]

More info of swap and FCon the server
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swapinfo -mt
Mb Mb Mb PCT START/ Mb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 16384 0 16384 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/swap
dev 8192 0 8192 0% 0 - 2 /dev/vg00/swap2
reserve - 11566 -11566
memory 25459 9941 15518 39%
total 50035 21507 28528 43% - 0 -
====================
ioscan -fnC fc
kjClass I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===================================================================
fc 0 1/0/6/1/0 fcd CLAIMED INTERFACE HP AB379-60101 4Gb Dual Port PCI/PCI-X Fibre Channel Adapter (FC Port 1)
/dev/fcd0
fc 1 1/0/6/1/1 fcd CLAIMED INTERFACE HP AB379-60101 4Gb Dual Port PCI/PCI-X Fibre Channel Adapter (FC Port 2)
/dev/fcd1
fc 2 1/0/14/1/0 fcd CLAIMED INTERFACE HP AB379-60101 4Gb Dual Port PCI/PCI-X Fibre Channel Adapter (FC Port 1)
/dev/fcd2
fc 3 1/0/14/1/1 fcd CLAIMED INTERFACE HP AB379-60101 4Gb Dual Port PCI/PCI-X Fibre Channel Adapter (FC Port 2)
/dev/fcd3
===================

[Torsten.]

Are there LUNS mapped to each of the FC HBA's?

Or is at least one of the FC HBA's connected to an "empty" SAN?