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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:41:34 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        hua@XENON.chromatic.com
Subject:   Re: Memory tests ...
Message-ID:  <199606220841.KAA26155@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199606212235.PAA01459@ohio.chromatic.com> from Ernest Hua at "Jun 21, 96 03:35:32 pm"

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As Ernest Hua wrote:

> Anyone know of any memory testing utilities for FreeBSD?

gcc. :-)

Seriously, a ``cd /usr/src; make world'' is a fair memory (and disk)
test.  We've got a batch of questionable machines recently, and i've
really installed FreeBSD on some of them, and ran the above.  The old
boards crashed within short time (normally less than 5 minutes after
starting the test), while the system went on for hours after swapping
the mainboard (in an otherwise identical environment).

> If none exists, how does one demand physical access to
> memory?

Hmm, but that's perhaps the biggest problem about it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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