On 7/9/2014 8:34 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > True enough; but this shouldn't take five minutes on a server with > multiple GB/s memory bandwidth. My Dell 6950's take a full five minutes > to POST, and that's ridiculous. There's eight cores; each core has > enough bandwidth to its local RAM (NUMA, of course) where it should be > able to sustain 2GB/s zeroing without a lot of trouble; that's a rate of > 16GB/s aggregate, and my 32GB of RAM should be zeroed in 2 seconds or > so. Not five minutes. i find the biggest part of server POST is all the storage and network adapter bios's need to get in there, scan the storage busses, enumerate raids, initialize intel boot agents, and so forth. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast