A buildworld is indeed an excellent test of memory, CPU, drives and cabling.
The memory tester is sysutils/memtest. It's not a very scientific test, but one thing I do is a make -j8 buildworld whilst I do a large tar operation, optionally with compression. Just anecdotally it appears that tar likes to use lots of memory. I usually do some sort of file system move, ala: tar jcf - original | tar xpvf - -C copy Make sure you have enough disk space to burn. This has caught dodgy memory on servers in the past. Jim _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
