Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml (revision 43198) +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml (working copy) @@ -3669,6 +3669,26 @@ in &man.tunefs.8;. + + + + Why does &os; pause for a long time at boot when the + system has large amounts of ram? + + + + &os; does a short memory test early in the boot + process. This test usually only takes several seconds, + however if the system has many 10s or 100s of gigabytes + of memory it can take up to a few minutes. This test + can be disabled by setting the + hw.memtest.tests to + 0 in + /boot/loader.conf + + For more details, see &man.loader.conf.5;. + +