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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2011 19:21:05 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
To:        Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Freebsd And the sun x4440
Message-ID:  <1305598865.2633.4.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <83D72FE6-15E8-4113-9811-05299D9C2402@longcount.org>
References:  <83D72FE6-15E8-4113-9811-05299D9C2402@longcount.org>

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On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 17:42 -0700, Mark Saad wrote:
> Once in the initial loading of the kernel at the "|" for 1-2 mins .
> Then again shortly after printing the kernel banner "freebsd
> 7.3-release etc etc etc" .  This delay is about 1-2 mins as well.

This looked like the "memory check" in my tests of -Current in the
projects/largeSMP tree.

You may want to try to manually disable the check using the following as
a base.  This is my diff to -Current.  Your mileage may vary.


Index: sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c
===================================================================
--- sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c	(revision 221963)
+++ sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c	(working copy)
@@ -1430,6 +1430,8 @@
 			    && pa >= trunc_page(dcons_addr)
 			    && pa < dcons_addr + dcons_size)
 				goto do_dump_avail;
+			if (1)
+				goto baluba;
 
 			page_bad = FALSE;
 
@@ -1474,6 +1476,7 @@
 			 */
 			if (page_bad == TRUE)
 				continue;
+baluba:
 			/*
 			 * If this good page is a continuation of the
 			 * previous set of good pages, then just increase

Sean




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