Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-21 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Ed Maste 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

Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-21 Thread Ed Maste
On 16 November 2013 17:49, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Zach Crum wrote: >> This setting is not listed in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. Is it supposed to >> be singular or plural? > > Plural. > > I will commit the patch. The FAQ update patch looks fine. > Does any know of

Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-16 Thread Eitan Adler
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Zach Crum wrote: > This setting is not listed in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. Is it supposed to > be singular or plural? Plural. I will commit the patch. Does any know of cases where this memory test actually catches errors? How important is it? -- Eitan Adler

Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-16 Thread Allan Jude
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

Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-16 Thread James R. Van Artsdalen
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

Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-16 Thread Allan Jude
On 2013-11-16 00:48, Matthias Petermann wrote: > 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 > > di

Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-16 Thread Darren Pilgrim
At the risk of facetiousness, the nice thing about FreeBSD is that you have to deal with this problem only a few times per year. ;) ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, s

Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-15 Thread Sergey V. Dyatko
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 06:48:11 +0100 Matthias Petermann wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > > >

Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-15 Thread Matthias Petermann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 t

Re: Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-15 Thread Allan Jude
On 2013-11-15 23:37, James R. Van Artsdalen wrote: > 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 he

Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

2013-11-15 Thread 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.