any comments on memtest v2.95, a command line memory testing utility

[bofus?]

hi,

	thanks much for the insights, kynan. just wondering about 
this and your thoughts help me out.




			watt



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>Message-Id: <17705B1C-60C0-11D8-BD30-000A95A0D8CC at cae.wisc.edu>
>From: Kynan Shook <kshook at cae.wisc.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Ti] any comments on memtest v2.95, a command line memory
>  testing utility
>Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:38:35 -0600
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>I'd say it looks worse than many software tests, simply because it can
>only run while the OS is running, requiring at least 100 MB of RAM to
>never be tested, by the porter's own admission.  If it's written well,
>then you can believe any failures it may indicate.  But it will still
>probably only catch about 5% or less of bad RAM.  Also, I don't like
>the idea of writing random values to RAM as one of its tests; unless it
>always uses the same seed value, this means the test is not repeatable,
>which is A Bad Thing...
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