, Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/12/2005 20:07:08
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:25:21AM -0500, David Maxwell wrote:
> > Good. hopefully we can ignore memory issues.
>
> I have no reason to highlight memory issues here - I just want to point
> out that a single pass of even the extensive tests isn't enough to rule
> out memory issues. Some of them are very situation specific, because a
> flaw on one signal line may only show up under certain data
> transitions...
Or the problem may not be permanent. I've let memtest86+ run for more
than 2 days a suspect systems, it showed only a few errors in the
undred of pass than ran (but all at the same address, and for the same
pattern).
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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