Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:28:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson <branson@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> To: pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil (william pechter ILEX) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 940804 (vaporware ;-) reboots the system either: Message-ID: <199504131528.LAA26412@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199504131114.EAA15916@wcarchive.cdrom.com> from "william pechter ILEX" at Apr 13, 95 07:11:36 am
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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.
I would like to see this left in the system as an option to configure into
the kernel... we could even add a hack to it so that the check can be a bit
more visiable... like the /|\- thingy or even the dots across the screen.
mabey a count out of the memeory... and possibly a generated report when it
finds a bad part... If there is interest in this... I will clean-up
the code I have and add some of the other features mentioned above.. for
now I have the dots.
-branson
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