Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:45:13 +0000
From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>
To: malc@pulsesoft.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lock-up on PPC64
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:04:45AM +0300, malc@pulsesoft.com wrote:
> 
> I don't know where to get PPC64 capable memtest, even if it exists the
> probability of two different machines exhibiting almost the same
> behaviour is rather slim. Netconsole doesn't catch anything. In fact
> i just had slightly different situation where after ssh connection was
> killed i was able to reconnect and look at dmesg there - nothing.
> 
 If you wanted to, you could get memtester from
http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/ - not as convenient as
memtest86 etc (it's just a userspace task, so it can't test all the
memory), but it did work on ppc64 last time I tried it (nearly 2
years ago).

Ken
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