MemTest Feb 2013 update

[David (PassMark)]

Here is a summary of the activity on MemTest86 for the month of Feb 2013.

• Took over project from Chris.
• Finished up work on the new MemTest86 web site
• Implemented a new ordering system for pre-made CDs and USB drives.
• Investigation into a possible bug on machines with 64GB of RAM resulting in not all RAM being testing. The problem is still open while waiting for traces from user.
• Fixed up minor issues with the build process on Ubuntu
• Placed code into SVN (Version control)
• Started research into doing a UEFI solution. But we have already found some limitations with UEFI. The main two problems (so far) with implementing MemTest86 in UEFI seem to be.
  • SMP multi-threading is hard to implment, maybe nearly impossible on initial implementations of UEFI. So any initial release might be single threaded only.
  • It is very hard to relocate code in order to test all RAM. This is mostly an issue for machines will a small mount of RAM.
  
  
• Did some in house testing of V4.1 release to develop a list of minor and major changes that would be good for future release.

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This thread is rather old, but then again the only one I found suitable for 4 suggestions I have for the 'new' Memtest website.

1) Over at http://www.passmark.com/products/index.htm the heading for Memtest shows Memtest86 4.1 although v4.2.0 is out
2) On the same page the "Read More" link for Memtest leads to http://www.passmark.com/products/batmon.htm
3) Still on the same page the "Download" link for Memtest leads to an outdated direct download of v4.1
Wouldn't it make more sense to just link to the general download page ( http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm ) since the version numbers will change all the time?
4) Over at http://www.memtest86.com under "History" the link to the "support forum" leads to the overview of *all* forums ( http://www.passmark.com/forum/index.php ) instead to the actually newly created Memtest support forum. The correct link would be http://www.passmark.com/forum/forumd...p?18-MemTest86

Thanks, and keep up the good work.