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Solution  1003494.1 :   Sun Fire[TM] 12K/15K/E20K/E25K: "Minimum proc_dump_delay has not been met." message during POST.  


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Description

During POST, the message "Minimum proc_dump_delay has not been met.  Pausing x seconds..." is displayed and logged during POST.

Steps to Follow
The following fragment of a POST log shows the above message:

# ident "@(#)postrc     1.1     01/04/02 SMI"
Minimum proc_dump_delay has not been met. Pausing 7 seconds...

This is generated by hpost when attempting a hardware dump and, in order to obtain all available (and valuable) diagnostic data, it will pause in case there are processors in the domain waiting to timeout on one or more bus transactions.

The message simply indicates that hpost is going to sleep briefly (about 7 seconds, by default) before collecting the data from the processors. It was introduced with SMS 1.3.

One would usually see this informational message when the following line is found in a domain's POST logs:

# Cmdline:  /opt/SUNWSMS/SMS1.3/bin/hpost -d B -D /var/opt/SUNWSMS/SMS1.3/adm/B/dump/dsmd.rstop.031118.2258.24 -y "DSMD RecordStop Dump"

Product
System Management Services 1.4.1 Software
System Management Services 1.4 Software
System Management Services 1.3 Software
Sun Fire 15K Server
Sun Fire 12K Server
Sun Fire E25K Server
Sun Fire E20K Server

Internal Comments
For internal Sun use only.

proc_dump_delay is a .postrc command to be used only by authorized Sun personnel.

It specifies the minimum time in seconds which must elapse
(measured from the start of POST) before the first processor is
dumped when creating a system hardware dump file (dstop).

If this time interval has not expired by the time execution
reaches the processor dump point, then POST will sleep for an
appropriate amount of time to ensure compliance.

The intent of the dump delay is to allow sufficient time after a
domain stop occurs for the processors' internal timeouts to expire,
thus creating error state information which may be valuable in
post-mortem analysis.

The default value is 7.2 seconds (about 2³⁰ cycles)
which is appropriate for the normal 150 MHz system clock.

SMS Source Code pointer:

./post/cmd/hpost/postrc.c

     int proc_dump_delay

 ./post/cmd/ssc_common/xc_dump.c

     static void delay_before_proc_dump (void)

 

f.d@sun.com

proc_dump_delay, POST, SMS
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Change History
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Product_uuid
a1dc296e-56d6-11d8-9e3a-080020a9ed93|System Management Services 1.4.1 Software
f898ca0c-e478-11d7-82d3-080020a9ed93|System Management Services 1.4 Software
3fd74862-d9aa-11d7-9de1-080020a9ed93|System Management Services 1.3 Software
29e4659c-0a18-11d6-9fa1-e67bbc033df8|Sun Fire 15K Server
077fd4c5-df8f-4320-ad69-7d01603a674d|Sun Fire 12K Server
d842dd03-059b-11d8-84cb-080020a9ed93|Sun Fire E25K Server
1404a2d3-059a-11d8-84cb-080020a9ed93|Sun Fire E20K Server

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