From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 23 20:47:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA11389 for current-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 20:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA11379 Tue, 23 Apr 1996 20:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id XAA01669; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 23:46:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id XAA05619; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 23:47:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 23:46:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Michael Smith cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Intelligent Debugging Tools... In-Reply-To: <199604240339.NAA14757@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Don't waste any money on it. If you get it as a freebie, that's fine, > but they're honest enough in the manual to point out that their tests > aren't anything compared to the load a mutltitasking VM OS imposes. > > (We got it Real Cheap when we were having RAM trouble; it didn't find the > problem, and this was a RAM error so bad that _Windows_ would barf.) > I've got 9 make processes running in /usr/src/lib right now, and will cycle those through for the next little while...that should give it a good test, shouldn't it? That with the rest of its normal load? Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org