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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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