On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 06:50:22PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> Is there anything akin to memtest86+ for SPARCs?  I did a little poking
> around and I saw some indications that some of the Linux people have
> developed something like that for Linux; anyone know of anything
> similar either standalone or NetBSD?

You know, for the longest time my favorite memory test has been
to run a large compile from memory. Keep disk access to a minimum
(no swapping) for best results. 

I once diagnosed incorrect memory (3-chip vs 9-chip SIMMS) in a 486
by doing a kernel build (with gcc). And not too long ago a guy at
work diagnosed an actual single bit error that caused a compiler
crash on Sunday nights. 

I don't know what about compilers causes memory problems to surface,
but it seems to work remarkably well.

-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/

"It sounded pretty good, but it's hard to tell how it will work out
in practice." -- Dennis Ritchie, ~1977, "Summary of a DEC 32-bit machine"