README Rember v.0.3.6b Copyright (C) 2004 - 2010 Eddie Kelley <eddie@kelleycomputing.net> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a GUI "wrapper" for the "memtest" command line program. Memtest is available at: http://www.memtestosx.org. Rember is available at http://www.kelleycomputing.net/rember This software is free, and is covered under the GNU GPL. Please read "COPYING" for more info.
Instructions: Features As of version 0.2b, there are Preferences that allow the user to quit all running applications, and/or the Finder. This allows for more available testing memory. There are now "Verbose" options in Preferences, and the "Log" view. This will toggle an output filter, displaying more/less output from memtest. Version 0.3b contains a 64-bit version of memtest, breaking memory testing
barriers that were present in past versions. It is also possible to stop
testing upon the detection of errors. Preferences are now saved in user
defaults. Version 0.3.4 provides a memory information window, and a report window that provide more user-friendly feedback. When testing in Rember, the program delays scheduled system sleep. An enhanced version of memtest includes support for the newest Apple machines. You do not need to install the memtest program for this application to work (Rember includes memtest inside of its application bundle). If you would like to run the memtest program from the command line (this also includes single user mode), see the "READMEFIRST" file inside of the enclosing disk image. * Note that this application will only allocate as much free physical memory as it can for testing. This will not run tests on all blocks of memory, as all memory is not available when booted into the Finder. To do more thorough tests, see the "READMEFIRST" file in the "Memtest413.dmg" package. This describes how to run "memtest" in single user mode.
v. 0.1.04b 9/5/2004 minor minor version change v. 0.2.0b 9/10/2004 minor version change v. 0.2.1b 9/23/2004 minor minor version change v 0.2.2b 12/4/2004 minor minor version change v 0.2.3b 1/25/2005 minor minor version change v.0.3b 8/18/2005 minor version change v.0.3.1b 12/22/2005 v.0.3.2b 2/22/2006 v.0.3.3b 8/23/2006 v.0.3.4b 9/16/2007 v.0.3.5b 9/1/2009 v.0.3.6b 1/24/2010 --------- |