Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:57:22 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: Joseph Gleason <clash@fireduck.com> Cc: Mahlon Smith <reich@internetcds.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pmap bomb on 4.0-STABLE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104051255040.33577-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <002801c0bdf1$2b5124c0$dc02010a@battleship>
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Joseph Gleason wrote: :A friend of mine swears by this memory testing utility: : :http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/ : :Apparently it tries a bunch of diffrent test patters that are likely to find :memory problems that a simple test wouldn't find. It is cool because you :just just write the image to a 1.44mb floppy and boot from that to do the :test. : :A major downside is how long it takes. It takes around 8 hours on my laptop The major downside is that software memory testing isn't conclusive. If it detects a problem, you've probably got one. If it doesn't, you may still. The only way to be sure is to use a hardware tester. If you don't have one, and most of us don't, you have to resort to swapping memory. : -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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