On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Norman Golisz <li...@zcat.de> wrote:

> On Sat Nov  5 2011 15:07, David Vasek wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Norman Golisz wrote:
> >
> > >On Sat Nov  5 2011 09:13, Forman, Jeffrey wrote:
> > >>Am I barking up the wrong tree trying to deduce if I really do have a
> > >>hardware problem? I am open to accepting diffs and compiling from
> source if
> > >>other developers think there might be a bug to fix here.
> > >
> > >It seems to be a hardware fault. To trap memory issues, you could try
> > >memtest86+ [1].
> >
> > >[1] http://www.memtest.org/
> >
> > Or ports/sysutils/memtest86+, which is the same and as a package it
> > is easier to deal with - it can be loaded by boot(8) directly from
> > /stand on your root filesystem. No CDs, floppies etc. are needed.
>
> Thanks for the pointer. I was thinking of burning the ISO, but that's
> indeed better.
>

Thanks to all that mentioned memtest. I did end up booting from the memtest
image provided in the openbsd package, and sure enough, there were tons of
RAM errors. Memtest has been running for over an hour on new RAM hardware
without error.

Cheers,

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