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SubjectRe: utility for testing ram?
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone know of a utility to extensively test a system's ram, in order to
> determine whether the ram has any faults?

The classic test is to compile the kernel repeatedly, as mentioned several
times before, this will give the machine a thorough workout, including
running at close to 100% cpu use for a long time, making for no cooldown
in idling, which will make marginal components even more likely to fail.

A simple script to do continuous testing would be:

#!/bin/sh
while true
do
make clean
make
done

Start it running overnight, if it's still running when you wake up, your
memory's likely to be ok.

I hope this helps,
--
Henrik Olsen, CNA, working on CNE.
URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
Get the rest there.


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