Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Sep 1996 09:57:11 -0500 (CDT) | From | Edward Welbon <> | Subject | Re: memory testing [was: Re: General protection fault in kswapd in 2.0.18] |
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On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Does anybody on the kernel list know of a good test program that is generally > > available that can be left running over-night or similar?
> Pick up a hairdrier and point it at your memory modules, while the system > is running. If some of the modules are flaky, then errors will show up > quite fast.
But be careful heat is vary bad for semiconductors, especially the densest ones. You can use Norton or AMI diagnostics to do memory tests. I have not been able to run these under dosemu these programs are evidently not very operating system friendly. I recommend that you use the selections that write various problems and if possible without ECC.
Ed Welbon; welbon@bga.com;
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