Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
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--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml (revision 43198)
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@@ -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;.
+
+