cvs pserver sig11 on 4.8-R

Wilko Bulte wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Mon Aug 4 04:07:15 PDT 2003


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:29:07PM +0200, Holger Kipp wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:14:02AM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:04:41AM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > > you might also look at http://www.memtest86.com/ for a free memtest 
> > > diagnostic.
> > 
> > I let the server run memtest86 for most of the last weekend - it got
> > through 37 loops of its extended test sequence over ~45 hours of
> > testing.  No errors were reported, so I guess the hardware is clean.
> 
> memtest86 might not find all hardware/memory related problems, whilst
> make -j8 buildworld still gives problems. We had this problem once and
> it took some time to find out that the high-quality memory-chips and
> the high-quality mainboard were not exactly compatible. In fact we
> did speak with the technicians of both companies (those providing the
> RAM modules and those responsible for the board).

Exactly the same experience here, with quality components. Apparantly
DDR400 RAM is bordering on what is technically working ;)

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