Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

From: Eitan Adler <lists_at_eitanadler.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:06:14 -0500
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> The variable name is "hw.memtest.tests" as it's intended to be
> extended to a bitmap of tests to run at boot, with other bits
> representing more comprehensive tests.
>
> -Ed
>
> commit 58f501f70427ce2aeb9c8b18d2b7bec543818dae
> Author: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
> Date:   Thu Nov 21 12:31:06 2013 -0500
>
>     Disable amd64 boot time memory test by default
>
>     The page presence memory test takes a long time on large memory systems
>     and has little value on contemporary amd64 hardware.

This patch looks good to me.  Please commit it. :)
Received on Thu Nov 21 2013 - 18:06:46 UTC

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