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Short: Memory Checker
Type: util/misc
Uploader: cosinus@deepthought.north.de
Author: atte@crash.north.de
System requirements: Kickstart 2.04+
Copyright
=========
MemCheck 37.2 (Release 1.0) - Copyright © 1994 by Andreas Gelhausen,
all rights reserved.
MemCheck is freely distributable. No part of this archive is allowed
to be distributed with commercial software without written permission
of the author.
No Warranty
===========
No warranties are made for this program. All use is at your own risk.
No liability or responsibility is assumed for any damages occured
during the usage of MemCheck. You have been warned.
Usage
=====
MemCheck is a small utility that allows you to test your memory on
two different ways.
SEGMENT TEST: This function checks all elements (memory segments) of
exec's memlist (each segment from start address to end address).
Each longword will be initialized through a certain value. If this
certain value will not be found after initialization, a chip of
the memory segment is defect.
ADDRESS TEST: The free memory will be allocated and all longwords
will be initialized with their own addresses. Then MemCheck checks
the values of each allocated longword. If a longword has a value
that is different from its own address, something is going wrong
in your system. In this case data will be written to wrong
addresses.
Example: My A2630 have had a defect logical chip. Many system
crashes were the result. Something like
'*** ERROR AT ADDRESS: $00201042 VALUE: $00209042'
has shown me, that the fifteenth bit was sometimes wrong.
You can select the following options:
TOOLPRI/K/N: You can set the task priority of memcheck from -128
to 127. Example: 'memcheck toolpri=1'
LOOP/S: If you select this option, MemCheck will run till you break
the process through a CTRL-C or CTRL-D.
How to reach the author
=======================
If you have questions, suggestions, bug reports or anything else,
you can send electronic mails to:
atte@crash.north.de (Andreas Gelhausen)
or
2:2426/2020.24 (on FidoNet)
If it is not possible for you to use this way, you can also send
letters to:
Andreas Gelhausen
Graf Spee Str. 23b
26123 Oldenburg
- Germany -