pfSense 2.4.4 as guest on top of Xen 4.13: boot performance debugging
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Hi all,
I'm using pfSense as a guest on top of Xen 4.13 and facing the quite long boot time. I would like to understand what is going on. Hardware is PC Engines apu2 with recent firmware. Xen config:name = "pfsense" type = "hvm" vcpus = 2 memory = 2048 pae = 1 acpi = 1 apic = 1 viridian = 1 rtc_timeoffset = 0 localtime = 1 on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "destroy" on_crash = "destroy" sdl = 0 vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0,backend=ndvm-1', 'bridge=xenbr0,backend=ndvm-2', # 'bridge=xenbr0,backend=ndvm-3' ] serial = "pty" vga="none" nographics = 1 ## Use this for installation ## #disk = [ '/mnt/pfSense-CE-memstick-serial-2.4.4-RELEASE-p3-amd64.img,,hda,rw', # '/mnt/disk.img,,hdb,rw' #] ## Use this for running from disk when already installed ## disk = [ '/usr/share/xen-images/pfsense.img,,hdb,rw' ]What I see on serial output is this:
00:00:06 /boot/config: -S115200 -D 00:00:10 Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port 00:00:10 BIOS drive C: is disk0 00:00:10 BIOS 639kB/2096124kB available memory 00:00:10 00:00:10 FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 00:00:10 (Wed Nov 21 08:03:01 EST 2018 root@buildbot2.nyi.netgate.com) 00:00:24 Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf 00:00:24 Finish /boot/defaults/loader.conf 00:00:29 Loading /boot/loader.conf.local 00:00:29 Finish /boot/loader.conf.local 00:02:43 / __ _ __ / _|___ ___ _ __ ___ ___ | '_ \| |_/ __|/ _ \ '_ \/ __|/ _ \ | |_) | _\__ \ __/ | | \__ \ __/ | .__/|_| |___/\___|_| |_|___/\___| |_| +============Welcome to pfSense===========+ __________________________ | | / ___\ | 1. Boot Multi User [Enter] | | /` | 2. Boot [S]ingle User | | / :-| | 3. [Esc]ape to loader prompt | | _________ ___/ /_ | | 4. Reboot | | /` ____ / /__ ___/ | | | | / / / / / / | | Options: | | / /___/ / / / | | 5. [K]ernel: kernel (1 of 2) | | / ______/ / / | | 6. Configure Boot [O]ptions... | |/ / / / | | | / /___/ | | | / | | | /_________________________/ +=========================================+ /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x17c1930 data=0xb93d38+0x557b28 syms=[0x8+0x197400+0x8+0x197f72] 00:02:45 /boot/entropy size=0x1000 00:02:45 Booting...I wonder what is happening for 2 minutes between loading loader.conf.local and moving forward with the boot process. Enabling
boot_verbosedoesn't help much since no additional logs were printed.If you have any ideas what makes pfSense to boot slow or how to debug that problem I would appreciate your help.
