From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 16 06:00:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: 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 5A127FE for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 06:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.s1.d2ux.org (static.209.96.9.5.clients.your-server.de [5.9.96.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ADA82EA8 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 06:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.s1.d2ux.org (mail [10.0.0.3]) by mail.s1.d2ux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B67984F260E; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 06:51:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.s1.d2ux.org ([10.0.0.3]) by mail.s1.d2ux.org (mail.s1.d2ux.org [10.0.0.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tddEDsN54j-Y; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 06:51:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from workstation.local (p5DDA961D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.218.150.29]) by mail.s1.d2ux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 58CC384F257E; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 06:51:06 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <5287071B.3020209@petermann-it.de> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 06:48:11 +0100 From: Matthias Petermann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "James R. Van Artsdalen" Subject: Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM? References: <5286F670.2050305@jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <5286F670.2050305@jrv.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: current@freebsd.org 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 06:00:44 -0000 -----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 | 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-----