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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:19:01
Message-Id: 52CE778A.101@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python by Helmut Jarausch
1 Am 09.01.2014 11:15, schrieb Helmut Jarausch:
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3 > You can't test all of memory, especially not low memory.
4 > But if you had a problem with some chip mapped to low memory
5 > I doubt Linux would even boot.
6 > Furthermore, memtester locks pages, i.e. it disables paging.
7 > So the machine might not be very responsive during the tests.
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9 Yep, read the manpage ... the box has ~900 MB of RAM and I run
10 "memtester 700M" for now. Loop1 ok, second Loop running ...
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12 thanks.