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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