svn commit: r43199 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Mon Nov 18 20:42:50 UTC 2013


On Sat, 16 Nov 2013, Eitan Adler wrote:

> Author: eadler
> Date: Sat Nov 16 22:58:33 2013
> New Revision: 43199
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43199
>
> Log:
>  Teach people about hw.memtest.tests.
>
>  Submitted by:	Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com>
>
> Modified:
>  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
>
> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sat Nov 16 13:36:40 2013	(r43198)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Sat Nov 16 22:58:33 2013	(r43199)
> @@ -3669,6 +3669,26 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
> 	    in &man.tunefs.8;.</para>
> 	</answer>
>       </qandaentry>
> +
> +      <qandaentry>
> +	<question xml:id="slow-boot-memtest">
> +	  <para>Why does &os; pause for a long time at boot when the
> +	    system has large amounts of ram?</para>
> +	</question>
> +
> +	<answer>
> +	  <para>&os; does a short memory test early in the boot
> +	    process.  This test usually only takes several seconds,
> +	    however if the system has many 10s or 100s of gigabytes
> +	    of memory it can take up to a few minutes.  This test
> +	    can be disabled by setting the
> +	    <literal>hw.memtest.tests</literal> to
> +	    <literal>0</literal> in
> +	    <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>.</para>

This has a grammar bug; it should either be "by setting the tunable 
hw.memtest.tests" or "by setting hw.memtest.tests", but not "by setting 
the hw.memtest.tests".

-Ben


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