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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:21:05 +0100
From:      Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>
To:        "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [(borderline) OT]: memtest question
Message-ID:  <20150831142105.GA2272@milliways>
In-Reply-To: <55E3B99A.9090501@hiwaay.net>
References:  <55E3AFB4.9050607@hiwaay.net> <20150831015922.GA6804@milliways> <55E3B99A.9090501@hiwaay.net>

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On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 09:24:36PM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 08/30/15 21:05, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 ?

ISTR memtester is not confined to x86, and that I used a version of
it, probably much older, on ppc64.  I have a feeling that it ran in
userspace, but that was several years ago.

ĸen
-- 
Il Porcupino Nil Sodomy Est! (if you will excuse my latatian)
  aka "The hedgehog song"



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