From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 16 04:48:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E9A846F8 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 04:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.scaleengine.net (beauharnois2.bhs1.scaleengine.net [142.4.218.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C70502BC2 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 04:48:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.1.1.1] (S01060001abad1dea.hm.shawcable.net [50.70.108.129]) (Authenticated sender: allan.jude@scaleengine.com) by mx1.scaleengine.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4000A1BE79 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 04:48:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5286F923.6060602@allanjude.com> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 23:48:35 -0500 From: Allan Jude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM? References: <5286F670.2050305@jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <5286F670.2050305@jrv.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="b6t2Mi8oJQR6L96e9Ml1elIWNhPx3LWnm" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 04:48:44 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --b6t2Mi8oJQR6L96e9Ml1elIWNhPx3LWnm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2013-11-15 23:37, James R. Van Artsdalen wrote: > Asus Z9PA-U8 motherboard, 256GB of RAM, 2.4 GHz Xeon E5-2695 v2, FreeBS= D > 11.0-CURRENT r258092 > > There is a two minute pause when booting, after the loader's SMAP > display and the initial kernel output, > > Does anyone know what's going on here? Even that much RAM shouldn't > take that much time to clear. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" It is a known issue (I have a few E5-2620s with 96 and 144gb of ram) There was talk at MeetBSD last year about making at least output a dot for each 1 or 8gb of something so you knew it was at least doing something, not sure whatever happened to that. It would be nice if it didn't that that long --=20 Allan Jude --b6t2Mi8oJQR6L96e9Ml1elIWNhPx3LWnm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJShvknAAoJEJrBFpNRJZKfhrgQALDhUPyUTUMHtnLfip7/2EeK VTVYnVQjmS2+/msNvtmeRJ1r7eFHV8JOJanojB5HPQ7aMp7+8pT1LHxpMdgfmLUk Ls4FUUFAD1uRj/40AQJL7DDb6OrNVUfy7xLu2kulYQwJH7yRmbZUI8dka+QwmCuT AzPl0K5kPxA3AmXcesSe1eIT18VhorTF4hRuW9Fhc3h/7K3uDws6RtwLTIocsMlr UdsLu8vMVb76z4RojbNbTPcD/7MkcVss5TmTqI2yNFqIrDLb6HkWzIzMDnKFiYVj DmDO4NUNwawQL9SGVKSeMZmp809kQRiznW0Z+mfwkxdhscbwj80sjx6H1jcMWsPa 0ynND2rZq01ptYGTPO8IjXNii3Nt2uuZEw3f5jC+EGKxmAEb/kIGT+f/o9bdAPw5 7ELdsuTrkUINny0ig78XY2wnrPoRChWu8Dscs1ip5/UMnhnOLyfvuEI5BwVX1LeZ JV7poft86i6QslequylCn0TA2nOa18FghAp1RiJcqugcDh0i7UAsG2sfg4rxGapi qDI6aaUFEE0HbMSNd8QqH1MtxzJJjxYJOgX13JK9Q+xyB97DjwiIKCZQMzsWMhKw cBMS/Drsl8Yyd6HayABpkLw2898VzqzkBQaqTZ3asiTwU8IiLYUA+3mOAGjhS0yX dpUw322d//0gvFP9GQGQ =l/G6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --b6t2Mi8oJQR6L96e9Ml1elIWNhPx3LWnm--