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Date:      Thu, 13 Apr 1995 07:11:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      william pechter ILEX <pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com (FreeBSD-hackers)
Subject:   Re: 940804 (vaporware ;-) reboots the system either:
Message-ID:  <199504131114.EAA15916@wcarchive.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504130412.VAA00140@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Apr 12, 95 09:12:26 pm

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> >I find it difficult to understand how it could be possible that
> >taking the memory test out alone could fix the problem - if the
> >problem isn't caught by the test, surely it would reappear later?
> 
>    The memory test was removed because it took too long on machines with a
> lot of memory (a lot is >= 64MB) and wasn't effective in finding real memory
> problems anyway.

Well, it fixed my wife's OS/2 installation crash problem and her 
Linux sig 11's.  Turned out to be bad memory.

Bill

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