Re: Memory diagnostics and misc utilities in Forth

Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
> Richard Owlett (21.08. 14:10):
>
>
>>I was thinking/musing. Yes, that does get me in trouble.
>>
>>Are there any public domain or GPL'd Forth sources for memory test on
>>Windows machines.
>>
>>I'm not looking for any super performance. I'm looking for educationally
>>informative examples of how you deal with covering much/most/all of
>>*physical* memory when you have no prior knowledge of where you program
>>will operate from nor what else may be using memory.
>
>
> As a data point, there is a tool memtest86 (IIRC) out there, which
> can be booted into *instead of* allowing any kind of real operating
> system setting up layers between you and the memory. I'd be surprised,
> if you could actually access a given physical address, once virtual
> memory is set up.

Thank you. I suspected that.
>
>
>>And by the devious paths my mind operates on, I asked "how can I
>>determine what files in a FAT32 system are fragmented?" and related
>>questions. Once again efficiency is not the measure.
>
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/fs/fsctl_get_retrieval_pointers.asp
>

That should be just the thing.
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Received on Sun Aug 21 2005 - 20:52:34 PDT