Date: 04 Oct 2001 20:39:08 -0700 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com> Cc: "Jonathan Blanton" <jmblant@clemson.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Random crashes Message-ID: <76zo76kb6r.o76@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <000801c14d27$73f9d260$14ce21c7@avatar.com> References: <000801c14d27$73f9d260$14ce21c7@avatar.com>
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"Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com> writes: > There are some memory test utilities in the /usr/ports/sysutils directory, > but they can only test portions on the main memory. That may be correct, but there's a version of /usr/ports/sysutils/memtest which tests all of memory after booting from a floopy that it has you make during "install". You might have to get via freshmeat.net or somewhere. I've used memtest v.2.7 and it comes with a version that runs from the command line (which I suppose is what was ported) and the floppy thing. It had a minor bug when run on an old 486 (reporting a bad cell repeatedly, but by dinking with the part of memory you ask it to test, I could get the bad address to change, so it looks like a bug, not bad memor). It has quite a few tests, some of which take hours to run, but which it claims does an extremely good job of testing. I suspect that is only theoretically so, and that one could get a few memory-type (maybe memory I/O?, maybe timing) errors to occur by heavy use of the CPU and I/O subsystems at the same time as memory testing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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