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Date:      Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:05:16 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs pserver sig11 on 4.8-R
Message-ID:  <20030804110516.GB9350@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20030804122907.A38327@intserv.int1.b.intern>
References:  <20030725123959.GB6218@llama.fishballoon.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030725102648.31689B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20030725145818.GC6218@llama.fishballoon.org> <51260000.1059145481@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net> <20030804101402.GB27179@llama.fishballoon.org> <20030804122907.A38327@intserv.int1.b.intern>

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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:29:07PM +0200, Holger Kipp wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:14:02AM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:04:41AM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > > you might also look at http://www.memtest86.com/ for a free memtest 
> > > diagnostic.
> > 
> > I let the server run memtest86 for most of the last weekend - it got
> > through 37 loops of its extended test sequence over ~45 hours of
> > testing.  No errors were reported, so I guess the hardware is clean.
> 
> memtest86 might not find all hardware/memory related problems, whilst
> make -j8 buildworld still gives problems. We had this problem once and
> it took some time to find out that the high-quality memory-chips and
> the high-quality mainboard were not exactly compatible. In fact we
> did speak with the technicians of both companies (those providing the
> RAM modules and those responsible for the board).

Exactly the same experience here, with quality components. Apparantly
DDR400 RAM is bordering on what is technically working ;)

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