On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 17:42 -0700, Mark Saad wrote:
> Once in the initial loading of the kernel at the "|" for 1-2 mins .
> Then again shortly after printing the kernel banner "freebsd
> 7.3-release etc etc etc" .  This delay is about 1-2 mins as well.

This looked like the "memory check" in my tests of -Current in the
projects/largeSMP tree.

You may want to try to manually disable the check using the following as
a base.  This is my diff to -Current.  Your mileage may vary.


Index: sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c
===================================================================
--- sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c   (revision 221963)
+++ sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c   (working copy)
@@ -1430,6 +1430,8 @@
                            && pa >= trunc_page(dcons_addr)
                            && pa < dcons_addr + dcons_size)
                                goto do_dump_avail;
+                       if (1)
+                               goto baluba;
 
                        page_bad = FALSE;
 
@@ -1474,6 +1476,7 @@
                         */
                        if (page_bad == TRUE)
                                continue;
+baluba:
                        /*
                         * If this good page is a continuation of the
                         * previous set of good pages, then just increase

Sean

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