On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:22:52PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Is the sysutils/memtest86+ port still useful? > > Our version dates from 2011, but even the newest one listed on the > home page is from 2013. I tried to run memtest as built by our > port on my Thinkpad X230 (ca. 2012), but it just crashes. Does it > still run on any machines of recent vintage? > > The port does not build with ld.lld. I have a diff to fix that, > but I don't know if it produces a working executable. However, > that's pointless if even the one built with ld.bfd doesn't work. >
I normaly use a bootable USB stick that comes with a memtest utility and never used the port. -- :wq Claudio
