From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 2 6:40:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C1037B6D4 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 06:40:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfrazier@magpage.com) Received: from magpage.com (poomba.magpage.com [216.155.24.136]) by magpage.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13788; Tue, 2 May 2000 13:27:20 GMT Message-ID: <390ED80C.5B3F8677@magpage.com> Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 09:28:44 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier Organization: Magpage Internet Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Reynolds~ Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make buildworld fails... References: <200005012244.PAA18097@freeway.dcfinc.com> <390E0F78.AE694C64@magpage.com> <14606.4507.916264.944604@hip186.ch.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/ > > I've used this recently on some DIMMs that I got at fry's (and promptly > returned because they were crap). > > There's people that say "only a hardware memory tester is reliable" which is > true, but at least this program helped**. > > -Jr > > ** helped in the sense that I saw craploads of errors which if I was running > an OS at that point in time, would have translated into non-cool > things. The progie doesn't really help "narrow down" anything. Just "got > bad RAM--go get another stick." .... > cool, thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Would be nice if it pinpointed which DIMM was failing, but that's nothing a little manual swapping can't tell me. thanks. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 System Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message