From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 5 12:50:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA26896 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 12:50:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA26891 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 12:50:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA23589; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 13:32:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704052032.NAA23589@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 2.2.1R NFS and FTP load problem FOUND To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 13:32:09 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970405105105.00a53e70@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Apr 5, 97 10:51:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >That's odd.. I had no problems installing 2.2R or 2.2.1R over NFS with an > >old ISA-only 486 with 8MB of RAM. > > Since there seems to be widespread doubt about this conclusion, > if someone can get me a boot disk with some diagnostics for > memory usage I'd be more than happy to try to track this down (as > its no doubt going to bite me in the future)....theres a limited amount > of info that I can gather with the install disk unfortunatly..... A good memory diagnostic is to boot the FreeBSD install; if it fails in 8M or more, you probably have flakey RAM. 8-). Seriously, short of a hardware tester of some kind, there are no real good RAM diagnostics that I know of, and certainly no software ones that are anything but high-level (and therefore mostly useless). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.