A big-ish machine, cannot boot

[Andriy Gapon]

on 19/11/2010 20:02 Sean Bruno said the following:
> What I've seen is that the long pause occurs between the display of the
> SMAP (boot verbose) and the copywrite notice.  The delay gets worse with
> larger memory maps.

How much memory do we talk about?
I wonder if it could be the code that touches each page to test its usability.
Some printf-profiling could be enlightening.

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Andriy Gapon