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SubjectRe: Memory Trauam

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:

>
> On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > One thing is certainly true. Power-on-self-test and check-memory routines
> > are just for "show". You could lean a lot more by seeing if the system
> > boots and can then do something useful for several days.
>
> Hmm. Odd idea here: how difficult would it be to create a deamon that sits
> in the background, mmaps in physical pages sequentially, and performs
> memory tests on them? Obviously you couldn't test any owned or kernel
> memory this way, but you could run the thing on low priority all the time.
>
> --
> Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)
>
>
I did something sorta like that to test my new Pentium 166 with the Intel
chip. I made a simple program that declared a local 2048 byte buffer (on
the stack). It forked a child, then wrote (forever) random numbers to
the buffer. Of course the child did this too as did its child, etc. When
the forked failed, I allowed the children to kill each other until everything
unwound to the original parent. This could continue forever.

Seeing that this worked okay, I had each child write a buffer of data to
a different file then close. The result was a machine that exercised about
everything except networking code. After about a day without any crashes,
I felt that the machine (this machine) was solid.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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