Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:56:03 +0000 () From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootloader & memory test... Message-ID: <199701021356.NAA05612@truk.brandinnovators.com> In-Reply-To: <199701021046.CAA27917@freefall.freebsd.org> from Darren Reed at "Jan 2, 97 09:45:48 pm"
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> Darren Reed wrote: > I haven't delved too deeply, but how hard would it be to have the kernel's > idle loop do a memory test ? Hard, I guess. For one you do not have all memory available to test as the kernel and many processes are using (more or less) random portions. Secondly: what would you do when you do find an error? Raising a panic is in many cases inapropriate. For example: the signal 11 (and 10 & 6) errors I am experiencing are raised by cc1 (the compiler proper) only. From the limited testing I managed to do, I got the suspicion that the errors have something to do with the motherboard and not with the SIMMs as such. Although not perfect I can live with that. Regards and a happy new year, Hans -- H. Zuidam E-Mail: hans@brandinnovators.com Brand Innovators B.V. P-Mail: P.O. Box 1377 de Pinckart 54 5602 BJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5674 CC Nuenen Tel. +31 40 2631134, Fax. +31 40 2831138
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