Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:00:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: utility for testing ram? |
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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>The best thing I've ever found to test memory to destruction is Linux, with >OS/2 a close second. :-} Boot Linux and do a full kernel compile, if your >memory is at all flaky the compile *will* die with a signal.
That is not necessarily true. It *MAY* die. Flaky memory, depending on the trouble, may or may not crash the computer. A lot of memory problems are intermittent. Also, even if a particular bit was stuck on, or stuck off, it may not affect something for a while, depending on what data or code actually hits that memory page.
Use a memory checker program that does pattern testing. This tests memory very well for problems. There are such utils out there for Linux, and someone is likely to point them out in this thread.
One such program is Norton Utilities, however that is certainly not available for Linux.... *yet*...
You can boot off floppy though, and run NDIAGS if you have Norton Utils...
Good luck! TTYL
-- Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant - Linux advocate
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