Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

From: Allan Jude <freebsd_at_allanjude.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:31:46 -0500
On 2013-11-16 13:36, James R. Van Artsdalen wrote:
> On 11/16/2013 8:52 AM, Allan Jude wrote:
>> I see this was in the release notes for 9.0 and 8.3, but other than
>> that, I don't see how anyone was supposed to find out about this. 
>> Maybe it would make sense to print 'Starting memory test, set
>> hw.memtest.test=0 to disable' before that starts, so anyone stuck
>> waiting will have a hint about what to do. 

A patch for the FAQ to add an entry about the hw.memtest.test=0 to speed
up boot on machines with a lot of ram


-- 
Allan Jude


Received on Sat Nov 16 2013 - 19:31:51 UTC

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