On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 07:59:15PM -0500, Anne Bennett wrote:
> 
> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:
> 
> > Next, unlimit datasize, memoryuse, and memorylocked.  Next,
> > run "memtester" from pkgsrc -- I see I accidentally called it "memtest",
> > but since that's the only memory tester we have that runs under NetBSD
> 
> Actually I have not had much luck with memtester (it had not occurred
> to me to unlimit anything, which may have been why it claimed it was
> testing a small fraction of the amount of memory I was asking it to
> test), but what I wanted to point out is that memtest86 *is* available
> for NetBSD, and the i386 version works on my Athlon64 machine.

I don't think memtest86 supports PAE, so AFAICT it can't test more than
4GB of memory.  What's of more concern to me, though, is that running a
simple memory-testing application on 7GB of RAM under NetBSD/amd64
produces a near-immediate hard system hang early in the first test -- which
does not occur with a test size of, say, 4GB.  Obviously, *NetBSD* should
not hang like that.

Thor