Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

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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

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