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authorEd Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>2015-10-02 08:52:48 +0000
committerEd Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>2015-10-02 08:52:48 +0000
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Update memory test info: not run by default in 10.2 and later
Reviewed by: dru Approved by: dru
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=47478
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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
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@@ -3459,10 +3459,11 @@ kern.sched.name: ULE</screen>
</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
+ <para>&os; 10.1 and earlier executes a memory test early
+ in the boot process. This test takes several seconds
+ if the system has a small amount of memory. On systems
+ with 10s or 100s of gigabytes of memory it can take
+ a few minutes or more. This test can
be disabled by setting <literal>hw.memtest.tests</literal>
to <literal>0</literal> in
<filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>.</para>