On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Aaron Lunansky wrote:
> It could very well be your ram (I don't suspect the cpu). If you can, try a
> different stick of ram.
I've found a good exercise for exercising memory faults is to recompile
the kernel with a -j16 flag; and in a second virtual console, do something
like dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=2048k
Either the kernel compile will fail with a sig11, or the dd will fail and
lock the system, in my experience.
I've used this method, crudely, to chase down memory problems in systems
using 256-512MB ram.
YMMV.
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