Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

From: Allan Jude <freebsd_at_allanjude.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 23:48:35 -0500
On 2013-11-15 23:37, James R. Van Artsdalen wrote:
> 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.
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It is a known issue (I have a few E5-2620s with 96 and 144gb of ram)

There was talk at MeetBSD last year about making at least output a dot
for each 1 or 8gb of something so you knew it was at least doing
something, not sure whatever happened to that.

It would be nice if it didn't that that long

-- 
Allan Jude



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