From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 13 08:29:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA18355 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 08:29:59 -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 IAA18349 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 08:29:56 -0700 Received: from dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (dvals1.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.4.96]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA29456 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 08:29:54 -0700 Received: (from branson@localhost) by dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA26412; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:28:28 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199504131528.LAA26412@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: 940804 (vaporware ;-) reboots the system either: To: pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil (william pechter ILEX) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:28:27 -0400 (EDT) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199504131114.EAA15916@wcarchive.cdrom.com> from "william pechter ILEX" at Apr 13, 95 07:11:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1326 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. I would like to see this left in the system as an option to configure into the kernel... we could even add a hack to it so that the check can be a bit more visiable... like the /|\- thingy or even the dots across the screen. mabey a count out of the memeory... and possibly a generated report when it finds a bad part... If there is interest in this... I will clean-up the code I have and add some of the other features mentioned above.. for now I have the dots. -branson -- MATHESON, E BRANSON E.B.MATHESON@LaRC.NASA.GOV Mail Stop 931 COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION NASA Langley Research Center Assigned to Operations Support Division Hampton, VA 23681-0001 Phone +1 804 864-9700