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

Re: Slow Boot

2003-10-20 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andre Guibert de Bruet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : What does pciconf -vl show on the affected machine(s)? I think you'll find that not relevant. I've seen this behavior with the newer ata code and IDE controllers that had no IDE devices connected to t

Re: Slow Boot

2003-10-19 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
What does pciconf -vl show on the affected machine(s)? > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/> On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Bill Moran wrote: > Mike Atamas wrote: > > When my system boots it seems to stall when it gets here

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Bill Moran wrote: > > It stalls for about 20-30 seconds and then continues booting. I can > > not figure out what the problem is or how to solve it. Has anyone > > had similar issues. > > I've seen this on various hardware. I actually have a 200mhz machine > sitting here that has always done this

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-18 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:09:05 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > > > From: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > > > On S

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:09:05 -0400 (EDT) > From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > [CC list trimed] > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > From: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -040

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-18 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
[CC list trimed] On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -0400 I heard the voice of > > > Bill Moran, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > > >>My best guess is that the chipset responds

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > What does pciconf -vl show on the affected machine(s)? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x154110b9 chip=0x154110b9 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00vendor = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)' device = 'ALI M1541 Aladdin V/V+ AGP System Controller' class=

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:45:36 -0400 > From: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -0400 I heard the voice of > > Bill Moran, and lo! it spake thus: > > > >>My best guess is that the chipset responds slowl

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-18 Thread Bill Moran
Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: What does pciconf -vl show on the affected machine(s)? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x12378086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82440/1FX 440FX (Natoma) System Controller' class= bridge

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-18 Thread Bill Moran
Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -0400 I heard the voice of Bill Moran, and lo! it spake thus: My best guess is that the chipset responds slowly to probes, thus it takes a while to get the list of devices from it. However, I've never looked into it any more than that. I'

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-17 Thread Mike Atamas
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:35:14 -0400 (EDT) Andre Guibert de Bruet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pciconf -vl Here is the output that it gave. I included everything because nothing particular struck me as relavent. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x80ac1043 chip=0x01e010de rev=0xc1 hd

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -0400 I heard the voice of Bill Moran, and lo! it spake thus: > > My best guess is that the chipset responds slowly to probes, thus it > takes a while to get the list of devices from it. However, I've never > looked into it any more than that. I've always presu

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
I have been seeing this for some time (> 2 years) on my ASUS P5A based K6 system. I have no idea why it's doing it, but I re-boot so infrequently that I just have not worried about it. It does seem that it is less likely to happen after a true cold boot. (Cut main power.) I was seeing this with V4

Re: Slow Boot

2003-08-17 Thread Bill Moran
Mike Atamas wrote: When my system boots it seems to stall when it gets here: xa807,0xa400-0xa403,0xa000-0xa007 mem 0xe100-0xe10001ff irq 11 at device 11. 0 on pci1 ata2: at 0xe100 on atapci0 ata3: at 0xe100 on atapci0 It stalls for about 20-30 seconds and then continues booting. I can