Re: 16 MB -> 32 MB, a memory problem resolved!

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:13:53 +0100 (BST)

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> The easiest way to crash Linux is specifying more RAM than you have.
> What about a very quick and dirty test of the memory size
> (read-modify-read at the highest address)?

The motherboard may well just lock up if you reference such addresses. Boards
with video devices mapped just above RAM will also get trampled blindly
and wrongly.

Alan

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