Sunnz wrote:
Ahh I see, so how does memtest to compare to something like building the userland?
memtest is targeted specifically at extensively testing your machine's memory, where building the userland will place load on not only the memory, but also the hard drive, testing both. The fact that building the userland requires the disk to make many seeks, reads and writes makes it an even better test than just copying big files around. If you find that the build test fails, and then find that memtest succeeds, then you can deduce that the problem lies with your hard drive, whereas if memtest also fails, you are likely to have RAM issues.
That doesn't address the possibility of motherboard/cpu/IDE controller issues, but its a good start.
Dave W
