On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> Being probably bitten again by some bad memory, I'm considering applying
> some of my old (VLSI) testingskills to this. However.....
>
> I'm in dire need of some hints, some because I haven't kept up with the
> intimate details of Intel hardware, nor do I know how to get a lineair
> memory space for all the fysical memory available in the system.
>
> The starting problems are:
> 1) I'd like to do this als a loadable kernel module, so one would load this
> module on the boot-prompt and let it eat away CPU time until it is rebooted.
I've found that multiple, parallel `make world's is a better tester than
the pattern testers/"Burn-in" tools (ie AMIDiag) that are floating around.
Compiling is a full-body workout -- when it hits a bad bit, it'll tank
rather spectactularly.
I have systems that pass repeated AMIDiag sweeps but couldn't build a
kernel or survive a database churn to save their lives.
Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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