On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:46:04AM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I have an article that, in part, discusses some memory and burn-in > tools, including memtester. See: > > Using Test Suites to Validate the Linux Kernel > http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/testsuites/ > > Scroll down to "Test the Basic Health of Your System". > > Note that while you might be able to test your RAM by plugging it into a > x86 box and running memtest86 on it, it is a better test to test it in > the machine that you're concerned about. That's because this will also > test your CPU, your motherboard, memory controller and so on. > > I have a Pentium III box that I'm pretty sure has flaky cache memory > aboard the CPU. I wouldn't have found that had I tested the memory in > another machine. (One reason I'm pretty sure if this is that I put all > new memory in it, and got identical test failures).
Thanks for posting this link! Thanks for writing the article! :) I downloaded, installed, reviewed, and then used the Cerberus Test Control System on the Cube I mentioned a while back, and it seems to be doing exactly what I wanted it to do. I'm going to leave it running for a full 24 hours just to be sure (16 hours on this run so far), but it's left me feeling a lot more confident that the Cube isn't going to unexpectedly crap out on me when I need it. More notes on my memory-test experiences can be found at http://www.pushby.com/queue/archives/001702.html. Because I can, I think I'm also going to do a run of the Linux Test Project on my current kernel (2.4.18-pre6-ben0 with the XFS patches applied) and see if any havoc results. I'll keep the list posted. BTW, do any of you have a .config for a Cube that's been stripped down to the minimum necessary to actually support all of the Cube's built-in hardware (along with USB and Firewire support) that's tailored for benh kernels? I've been trying to do it myself, but I apparently keep exercising some weirdness, because I get huge numbers of "IN from blah at blah" errors in the kernel message buffer. Forrest -- . . . the self-reflecting image of a narcotized mind . . . ozymandias G desiderata [EMAIL PROTECTED] desperate, deathless (415)823-6356 http://www.pushby.com/forrest/ ::AOAIOXXYSZ::
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