From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 27 19:50:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles542.castles.com [208.214.165.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4050150F6 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 19:50:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00724; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 19:55:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912280355.TAA00724@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Khetan Gajjar Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory tester In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Dec 1999 02:32:02 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 19:55:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi. > > I suspect certain on-board system cache or memory problems with > my primary FreeBSD server (the symptoms are random panics whenever > memory-hungry processes run). Is there any software available > which I can (preferably) test the system with under FreeBSD, > or can anyone point me to a decent free-ware tester ? No such animal really exists, unfortunately. You can try testing just the memory, but it's quite possible that the problem is cache, chipset or power supply as well... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message