From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 31 02:02:03 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691349C65EA for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:02:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com) Received: from know-smtprelay-omc-7.server.virginmedia.net (know-smtprelay-omc-7.server.virginmedia.net [80.0.253.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5F31E2C for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:02:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([81.106.150.188]) by know-smtprelay-7-imp with bizsmtp id BE0r1r0034481jl01E0rg0; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 03:00:51 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [81.106.150.188] X-Spam: 0 X-Authority: v=2.1 cv=JuUM15MC c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=DGj713NdaxKrsjjgQne7PA==:117 a=DGj713NdaxKrsjjgQne7PA==:17 a=NLZqzBF-AAAA:8 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=uRRa74qj2VoA:10 a=I6Rh_O1cN7CNVK9K09IA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 500) id C6F5F879B8; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:59:22 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:59:22 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! Subject: Re: [(borderline) OT]: memtest question Message-ID: <20150831015922.GA6804@milliways> References: <55E3AFB4.9050607@hiwaay.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <55E3AFB4.9050607@hiwaay.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 02:02:03 -0000 On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:42:22PM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > I downloaded Passmark memtest v6.0.0 some weeks ago & dd'ed it to a USB > stick & used it to memtest a box I was then building, AMD 4256EE Opteron > based server. Everything went AOK (IIRC) & the box is now in service. I am > doing another one now (AMD A8 6500 CPU based) & the memtest seems to be > stuck. I downloaded memtest86+ lastest from their site (5.0.1) & want to > make another USB memtest stick out of it. I wound up going to the Passmark > version back when because I could never get a bootable USB stick configured > from this box (FreeBSD 9.3R-p24 now, ~p9 back then). I wound up using > Passmark's disk image, dd-ing it to a USB stick under Linux, & all went > well. The file I downloaded is called 'memtest86+-5.01.bin.gz' & file says > it is just a compressed '.bin' file: > I had never heard of passmark memtest until you mentioned it, but it appears to be the current version of memtest86, unless I am mistaken? Om ny current machines I happen to use memtest86+, but on _none_ of them does the "use all processors" variant run for more than a couple of minutes. So, do you really _need_ memtest86+5.01 ? Mine are all installed to /boot from linux, so I cannot offer any suggestions about how to install to a stick. But in theory, both are variants of the same test routine, and therefore either variant is *probably* good-enough for most people ? ĸen -- Il Porcupino Nil Sodomy Est! (if you will excuse my latatian) aka "The hedgehog song"