From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 13 20:53:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA07457 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 20:53:39 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.BARRNET.NET [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA07451 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 20:53:37 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id UAA00401 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 20:50:56 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA04764; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 11:52:38 +0800 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 11:52:37 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Testing memory (was Re: 940804 (vaporware ;-)) In-Reply-To: <199504131952.MAA10852@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Apr 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > I have access to one locally, and when I have my doubts about memory > I take it over there and get it tested the ``right way''. These SIMM > tester boxes are a little expensive for me to own one, but they sure > come in handy when dealing with memory related problems. Must be nice. :) Failing that though, I suppose the only alternative is a DOS-based software memory checker then (like the ones mentioned previously)? I suppose it this kind of memory tester is by definition not possible under UNIX unless it is built into the kernel? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org