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Date:      Mon, 07 Aug 2000 09:57:45 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: When Good DIMMS go Bad (or how I fixed my sig11) 
Message-ID:  <200008071557.JAA32453@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Aug 2000 10:53:27 CDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000807105052.95334A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> 
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000807105052.95334A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>  

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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000807105052.95334A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> David Scheidt writes:
: convince people that their memory is bad.  The only reliable way to test
: memory is with a hardware testor, or swapping known good memory in.

Yes.  while (1) do ; make world; done is a close second to a hardware
tester.

I can't tell you the number of times I've had flakey systems that made
people sure FreeBSD was busted.  A new CPU, mobo or memory fixed these
right up.  Troubleshooting that can be interesting...

Warner


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