Slow boot with 256GB of RAM?

[Zach Crum]

the e-mail refers to test (singular)

hw.memtest.test=

the attachment refers to tests (plural)

<literal>hw.memtest.tests</literal>

This setting is not listed in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. Is it supposed to
be singular or plural?

Kind Regards,

Zach



On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:

> 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
> >> hw.memtest.test=0 to disable' before that starts, so anyone stuck
> >> waiting will have a hint about what to do.
>
> A patch for the FAQ to add an entry about the hw.memtest.test=0 to speed
> up boot on machines with a lot of ram
>
>
> --
> Allan Jude
>
>


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