Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?
Eitan Adler
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Thu Nov 21 19:06:46 UTC 2013
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. :)
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