From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 13 04:14:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA11307 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 04:14:35 -0700 Received: from wcarchive.cdrom.com (wcarchive.cdrom.com [192.216.191.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA11301 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 04:14:35 -0700 Received: from orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil ([158.9.11.65]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA15916 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 04:14:24 -0700 Message-Id: <199504131114.EAA15916@wcarchive.cdrom.com> Received: by orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA064601496; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 07:11:36 -0400 From: william pechter ILEX Subject: Re: 940804 (vaporware ;-) reboots the system either: To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 07:11:36 -0400 (EDT) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com (FreeBSD-hackers) In-Reply-To: <199504130412.VAA00140@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Apr 12, 95 09:12:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 772 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >I find it difficult to understand how it could be possible that > >taking the memory test out alone could fix the problem - if the > >problem isn't caught by the test, surely it would reappear later? > > The memory test was removed because it took too long on machines with a > lot of memory (a lot is >= 64MB) and wasn't effective in finding real memory > problems anyway. Well, it fixed my wife's OS/2 installation crash problem and her Linux sig 11's. Turned out to be bad memory. Bill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter |Systems Administrator | Ilex Systems |170 Patterson Ave | Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702 908-532-2369 |pechter@sesd.ilex.com | pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil