Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:19:10 +0200 From: Nevermind <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: apina@infolink.com.br, "David A. Bader" <dbader@eece.unm.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world on 4.2-R breaking Message-ID: <20001123101910.A1019@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <200011230041.eAN0fHS03658@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 06:41:17PM -0600 References: <apina@infolink.com.br> <200011230041.eAN0fHS03658@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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Hello, David Kelly! On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 06:41:17PM -0600, you wrote: > "Antonio Carlos Pina" writes: > > David, I have a little program (I don't recall who wrote it, sorry) > > that tests memory, stressing it. I can tell that it hangs a bad > > machine (cpu or bus or memory) in 2 or 3 minutes. It fits in a floppy > > and it is a DOS program. If you want a copy, I can send it to you. > > Yeah. But. Remember a memory test program can not prove memory is good. > It can only prove memory is bad. And then only if it happens to be very > bad. Memory can and does fail when certian sequences of events happen. > The trick is to reproduce that sequence. There is a program called testmem.com (for DOS, sure) which tests memory very good. I know, here is not much DOS-lovers, but it is the only program I found which gives true results. It is so small that it can be loaded into L1 cache so, no RAM access occurs during memory test except by this prog. -- Alexandr P. Kovalenko http://nevermind.kiev.ua/ NEVE-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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