Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:18:31 -0400 From: "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [(borderline) OT]: memtest question Message-ID: <1441030711.3150.13.camel@michaeleichorn.com> In-Reply-To: <55E3B99A.9090501@hiwaay.net> References: <55E3AFB4.9050607@hiwaay.net> <20150831015922.GA6804@milliways> <55E3B99A.9090501@hiwaay.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, 2015-08-30 at 21:24 +0000, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 08/30/15 21:05, Ken Moffat wrote: > > 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? > > AFAIK, yes. > > > > > 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 ? > > Only if it works :-). > > > > > 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 > > > I wanted to try 5.01 to see if it worked any better than the Passmark > version, nothing more. There is a port of memtest86+ v4.2, but since > the > 5.01 claims July 2013 as its inception, I figured 4.20 would be even > older, perhaps unable to work w/ this particular CPU. There is also > something called 'memtester-4.3.0', would you happen to know anything > about it ? The currently running memtest still shows its spinning state > ASCII icon, & the time advances, but it the pass progress & test > progress haven't changed in hours now .... 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