On Fri, May 04, 2001, Tony Crawford wrote: > Hi Gang! > > After over 100 days of error-free service, my Debian 2.2/i486 > dial-up-router-cum-print-server did a spontaneous reboot > yesterday. > > (Aftermath: the CMOS clock had jumped ahead an hour and a half, > the nmbd log contained non-printing characters at that point, > and 1 e-mail in the exim spool was corrupt.) Before this happens > again, maybe somebody can recommend ways to test for decaying > silicon? Preferably in-service; if that's not possible then at > least without booting a different OS? >
Hi Tony, memtest86 (available from http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/) will give your memory at least a good workout. It needs to be run directly from boot off of floppy in real mode of processor). Hope this helps and take care, Daniel -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
