Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 06:48:11 +0100 From: Matthias Petermann <matthias@petermann-it.de> To: "James R. Van Artsdalen" <james-freebsd-current@jrv.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM? Message-ID: <5287071B.3020209@petermann-it.de> In-Reply-To: <5286F670.2050305@jrv.org> References: <5286F670.2050305@jrv.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello James, Am 16.11.2013 05:37, schrieb James R. Van Artsdalen: > Asus Z9PA-U8 motherboard, 256GB of RAM, 2.4 GHz Xeon E5-2695 v2, > FreeBSD 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. in an earlier discussion at FreeBSD Forums[1] it looks like this is related to some early stage memory test which is performed. It can be disabled by adding hw.memtest.tests="0" to /boot/loader.conf. For my 32GB machine this helped. Best regards, Matthias [1] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12705 - -- Matthias Petermann <matthias@petermann-it.de> | www.petermann-it.de GnuPG: 0x5C3E6D75 | 5930 86EF 7965 2BBA 6572 C3D7 7B1D A3C3 5C3E 6D75 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJShwcbAAoJEHsdo8NcPm11kTMQAI3sxsltJ7Se/CaZ7QsMmkFy THULbdDLEAIJYBhfgfMh+wsK4DNu5uj+u8uL52hP2MjbV7MPOWX27xUYrGjbC1HZ /QIcz+sAXvxV3eclLhlLuNtdZIh8U2ORQ20VleT/wsoAw0UuP4Bu/+akiVRWiEyF /FfGfFolczMrcNQpt4Y3XbTaADTRVsx9ZmU7ZRDg+KKt+oRPGsngo75GwkCiiwVg Ew+nSjlUB4pXiPW5teaG6asg2tLIgArVilJE7PP8mPGsz0rBf/gArGCyw3OweYzv gmJ13nfVrOWAlz9ZYL8KFg1eON4qb2G3Trjl3g4rr/7vYoi2XXz19zevkxv/kDKi xJCtHzVGFW0Dh6QN0M8tHc5aqb3+kLsulxEbDPDcmWGw7DPeFfRXYx8VNXLGphJC +f1Br/WUa0K6BiRgn+yKHS9IX6P5s4aY2xyCMmcRoH7Q5YjCdKHOrdtqKwjMIPRm BL0n+Viwwcu2qWmpTYNfQpcIRhAhc3F1v6RPxa8t3WYopBopkllFb/z8AbtWr8fF kuCcEmw0PdKxSQgHHdTmy5UW2f+pDvCX3h5qX9inks8PMq1JWYwNz+7WTfDb4Bvn pHWLE3RM78DpTDGXRuyoiwZEqh/KzHbwIw7pqWApjgINc7nifaNCRoYbxKSYVJ2s TfnjxAn2tXfe5nLqA00E =ePIV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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