From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 19 20:40:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE0137BE32 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:40:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id UAA03867; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:38:40 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id UAA27266; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:38:40 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id UAA05184; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:38:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38AF715D.ED0DAB03@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 21:45:17 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey Cc: Bruce Gingery , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: Recommended addition to FAQ (Troubleshooting) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Bruce Gingery wrote: > > > So I'll leave it up to you. There should be info at least in > > a FAQ somewhere that indicates that bad RAM is not something > > that can be ruled out until tested adequately, and perhaps a > > checklist of symptoms that (virtually) ALWAYS indicate bad RAM, > > or at least should make it suspect. > > It's *precisely* that attitude that makes up all immediately and > completely against recommending any memory tester whatsoever. You > apparently didn't read what Jordan told you closely enough to catch the > main point: > > There is *no possible software method* of catching memory errors, with > more than a 25% chance of really catching errors! Sure there is, and it's included in FreeBSD by default: make -j 8 world ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message