Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 06:48:11 +0100
Matthias Petermann <matthias_at_petermann-it.de> wrote:

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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.

+1. (box with 128GB ram)

> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Matthias
> 
> 
> [1] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12705
> 
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