Re: Feature Wish - Hardware testing.

Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:22:54 -0400 (EDT)


> Imagine that you could toggle a switch somewhere and then the kernel
> goes into paranoid mode, checking everything three times, stealing all
> the idle CPU cycles to tromp up and down the hardware seeking hardware
> faults.

If your testing finds a problem, wouldn't you rather correct it than go on
working? If you think there's a problem, but your testing doesn't turn it
up, do you really want to go back to working after the test? If you don't
suspect a problem, why do you want to test?

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Title: MemTest-86 - X86 memory test
Version: 1.0
Entered-date: 01Jan96
Description: Memtest-86 is very thorough stand alone memory test for
386,486,586 systems.
Keywords: testing memory
Author: cbrady@ucar.edu (Chris Brady)
Maintained-by: cbrady@ucar.edu (Chris Brady)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Misc
500 memtest86-1.0.lsm
13164 memtest86-1.0.tgz
Alternate-site: N/A
Original-site: N/A
Platform:
Copying-policy: GPL
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Trevor Johnson

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