Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 08:52:49 +0000 (UTC) From: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47478 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201510020852.t928qnwx091479@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: emaste (src committer) Date: Fri Oct 2 08:52:48 2015 New Revision: 47478 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47478 Log: Update memory test info: not run by default in 10.2 and later Reviewed by: dru Approved by: dru Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Fri Oct 2 08:29:10 2015 (r47477) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Fri Oct 2 08:52:48 2015 (r47478) @@ -3459,10 +3459,11 @@ kern.sched.name: ULE</screen> </question> <answer> - <para>&os; does a short memory test early in the boot - process. This test usually only takes several seconds, - however if the system has many 10s or 100s of gigabytes - of memory it can take up to a few minutes. This test can + <para>&os; 10.1 and earlier executes a memory test early + in the boot process. This test takes several seconds + if the system has a small amount of memory. On systems + with 10s or 100s of gigabytes of memory it can take + a few minutes or more. This test can be disabled by setting <literal>hw.memtest.tests</literal> to <literal>0</literal> in <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>.</para>
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