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Date:      Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:38:06 +0400
From:      Maxim V FIlimonov <che@bein.link>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org>, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: it keeps crashing and I don't know why
Message-ID:  <1546738.DtsfkVfjkP@quad>
In-Reply-To: <20140808143135.GB99074@home.parts-unknown.org>
References:  <20140808132735.GA2102@home.parts-unknown.org> <809311aa7e3c0e025ffd98fc1bd0f209@mhoenicka.de> <20140808143135.GB99074@home.parts-unknown.org>

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On Friday 08 August 2014 07:31:35 David Benfell wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 04:00:29PM +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> > Well, if memory corruption is a possible source of your problems, you'd
> > better run memtest as Maxim suggested. Some Linux live CDs contain it
> > anyway, see e.g. Knoppix.
> 
> I think Maxim was pointing to something even more convenient.
> Memtester is a port, found in sysutils. I'm running it now.
> 
> Maybe the system will stay up long enough for it to complete....
> 
> Thanks!

Well, that's also an option, but the system might get a kernel panic or get 
the binaries or something broken. So if you manage to do that, it would be 
perfect, but I'd recommend to download a livecd with memtest.
-- 
wbr, Maxim Filimonov
che@bein.link



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