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Bill Leuze (billeuze@island.net)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 01:58:17 -0800
try the Linux Kernal compile stress test, see
http://www.eskimo.com/~pygmy/stress.txt
the guy who is promoting it says it works better than memtest
This test worked well for me when I bought a new system that appeared to
work alright untill I tried bencmarking it - then it crashed. I used the
stress test to find out it was a faulty processor.
At 08:42 AM 1/21/99 -0800, you wrote:
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>On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Cameron wrote:
>> > Does someone know the whereabouts of a memory test program that
>> > will test up to or beyond 64 megs of ram? I have some memory I
>> > suspect to be faulty at times, but would like to verify for esoteric
>> > purposes.
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>The only one I know of is memtest86, available from
>http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware/ and also in the debian
>hw-utils package.
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>However, this program may not catch all errors - I had a system that
>was crashing frequently until I switched RAM, but memtest86 never found
>a problem with the old memory.
>
> -Mike <mmontour@iname.com>
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