Paolo Pedroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Il 12:43, marted́ 30 ottobre 2001, hai scritto: > > > Do you use it often? Did it allow you to detect memory problems in the > > real world? > > I detected memory problems at least three times, using memtest. It just works! > Now, everytime some friend of mine asks me to check their malfunctioning > computer, first thing I do is stick a memtest floppy disk in their drive and > check their memory.
Personally, I use for a long time the simple following thing: I recompile 100 times a kernel, storing the logs, and I then verify all the logs are the same ; when memory or chipset or processor are malfunctioning, sometimes GCC receives signal-11 because of failing hardware. I'm wondering if "memtest" would not miss some of the errors; also it doesn't use the harddisk so it can miss chipset problems related to disk probably. Of course, "memtest" is really more easy to use than recompiling a kernel. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
