Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 09:53:32 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: papowell@astart.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display progress during getmemsize() so the kernel doesn't look like it hanged Message-ID: <C1926DD4-DD92-4BBE-BFE5-679BF2794846@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54B927F9.1010401@astart.com> References: <D0DCA0FF.129C55%rpokala@panasas.com> <54B7656D.9000704@freebsd.org> <54B927F9.1010401@astart.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Jan 16, 2015, at 7:02, Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com> wrote: > On 01/14/15 22:59, Allan Jude wrote: >> Glad to see this, thanks for doing the work Ravi. Also, I agree with jhb@, we should disable the test by default in stable/10 (i think it is off by default only for VMs currently). > > Please please do not disable memory tests by default. If you do, when trying to boot from a CD/Memory Stick > image on a system with bad memory (which would be found by the tests) then it gets quite difficult to find this > problem. > > You need to have some boot level option setting experience/wizardry to set the flags during boot. > > Also this information should be added to the Hardware or Install portion of the FreeBSD Handbook. > > I have vivid memories to trying to boot up a system with bad memory. Or… turn it off by default and provide an option in the boot loader to turn it on manually? Cheers! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUuVAcAAoJEMZr5QU6S73eIDUH/1C17ro/r+hqoQ1qbE4Y/YU8 vRSBBVY1TFChTvRH2hGTI6mhzsSBJ4QEHYvX0Brz2HmJDA82S60n3uoE3MEJX7n9 S4TyTxDa8+WfBWs9LQDLMxtrMp0xi+PYFh4dvyQVWzWtU3m6Cy9dMzdW3mNomL/K VAgx2fuVaqQWUBh9rhnYrjGG06OY5CqMkZlTsKESnD3LVgCfYZtxu4Clk+1KWUFH /ghZ5afwIk9ZvcgRUb6/ZpnKQunhtooSYEGjsXRQqFkXSviAp6ufqiq8BPcV67Zx 7DZ1iI+IWN6hwegWZWWwhTsxO/mthBjz4YLFERpcIfRLyepe78sp+cpEhX8M/m4= =AtMY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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