> Hi,
>
> Anyone know of a utility to extensively test a system's ram, in order to
> determine whether the ram has any faults?
The classic test is to compile the kernel repeatedly, as mentioned several
times before, this will give the machine a thorough workout, including
running at close to 100% cpu use for a long time, making for no cooldown
in idling, which will make marginal components even more likely to fail.
A simple script to do continuous testing would be:
#!/bin/sh
while true
do
make clean
make
done
Start it running overnight, if it's still running when you wake up, your
memory's likely to be ok.
I hope this helps,
-- Henrik Olsen, CNA, working on CNE. URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.
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