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On 01/14/15 22:59, Allan Jude wrote:
> Glad to see this, thanks for doing the work Ravi. Also, I agree with 
> jhb@, we should disable the test by default in stable/10 (i think it 
> is off by default only for VMs currently). 

Please please do not disable memory tests by default.  If you do, when 
trying to boot from a CD/Memory Stick
image on a system with bad memory (which would be found by the tests) 
then it gets quite difficult to find this
problem.

You need to have some boot level option setting experience/wizardry to 
set the flags during boot.

Also this information should be added to the Hardware or Install portion 
of the FreeBSD Handbook.

I have vivid memories to trying to boot up a system with bad memory.

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