From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 13 23:15:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17227 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:15:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA17220 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:15:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0zTKDG-0001fi-00; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:15:10 -0700 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:15:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" cc: Vijay Ramasubramanian , Mike Grommet , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation probs w/3.0-BETA In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981014004150.0103ae24@207.227.119.2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 03:45 PM 10/13/98 -0500, Vijay Ramasubramanian wrote: > >That was one of my suspicions due to the circumstances. Do you (or anyone > >on the list) happen to know a good memory testing program to see if I can > >confirm this? I don't have spare RAM at my disposal that I can swap in to > >see if it fixes things. > > Don't know any good testers, but swapping memory around can help you locate > the bad SIMM/DIMM, which is probably faster than locating a test program > and running it (if it works). Done it a few times myself. Or use parity SIMM/DIMM and then there is zero guess work. Rather than a mysterious non-reproducable crash, you will get a parity failed panic. Everyone should use parity memory all the time. > If you only have one DIMM, like I do in one system, it's worth lowering the > timings and see if that helps. Mine are all max'd, but then quality memory > should do that. 8-) > > Anyone know how much memory an install can use up? Just like any other FreeBSD app: as much as is available. Since the install does a lot of i/o most of memory will probably put to work as a disk cache. > Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking > jeff@mountin.net Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message