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Date:      Fri, 8 Aug 2014 08:14:08 -0700
From:      David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org>
To:        Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: it keeps crashing and I don't know why
Message-ID:  <20140808151408.GA679@home.parts-unknown.org>
In-Reply-To: <bf52437899d7595ef5b79b4e71a8a025@mhoenicka.de>
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 04:35:58PM +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>=20
> I don't know the innards of FreeBSD well enough to be sure, but I=20
> remember from the days of yore that memtest runs without an OS to be=20
> able to do whatever it likes. This was said (back then) to give more=20
> thorough results than if you allow the OS to interfere with memory=20
> access.
>=20
I think that'd be the version on a Knoppix (or other) live CD. A
drawback to running under any operating system would be that it
obviously can't do write tests to the memory in use by the OS.

--=20
David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org>
See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the
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