From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 11:58:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F261065670 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 11:58:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atom@smasher.org) Received: from atom.smasher.org (atom.smasher.org [69.55.237.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1C2C8FC12 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 11:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 76897 invoked by uid 1000); 6 May 2010 11:32:06 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 23:32:16 +1200 (NZST) From: Atom Smasher In-Reply-To: <4BE2A3A1.5030805@acm.poly.edu> Message-ID: <1005062327340.2629@smasher> MIME-Version: 1.0 OpenPGP: id=0xB88D52E4D9F57808; algo=1 (RSA); size=4096; url=http://atom.smasher.org/pgp.txt References: <1005062053260.2629@smasher> <4BE2A3A1.5030805@acm.poly.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-POM: The Moon is Waning Crescent (48% of Full) X-Hashcash: 1:20:1005061132:freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org::Wp2JZtYCra55sNlQ:000000 000000000000000000000000BvPQ Subject: Re: bad RAM? prove it with a crash dump? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 11:58:48 -0000 On Thu, 6 May 2010, Boris Kochergin wrote: > My experience with bad memory is that if it causes the machine to crash, > it won't always happen while the machine is running the same process (or > kernel thread)--so look for it crashing in a wide variety of places--and > upon inspection of the core dump, a pointer somewhere will be pointing > to garbage. ============ so really i'd need to collect two or more crash dumps, and if they point to different addresses then i can reasonably say the RAM is bad? thanks... -- ...atom ________________________ http://atom.smasher.org/ 762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D 52E4 D9F5 7808 ------------------------------------------------- "You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." -- George "dubya" Bush, describing what it's like to be governor of Texas. (Governing Magazine 7/98) "If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." -- George "dubya" Bush http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html 18 Dec 2000 CNN.com "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it." George "dubya" Bush, 27 Jul 2001 Associated Press