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From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
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For hardware testing, the best is ports/math/mprime

In combination with memtest86, because mprime doesn't sweep all RAM. 

If you have several processors, be sure to run several instances of
mprime (requires copying the whole mprime directory).

Martin
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