On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:46:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *-Lawrence (22 Jul) > | E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > | > > what would happen if I use a number bigger than your, e.g. 67108865 or > | > > even 70000000? > | > > | > Swapping. This will happen already if you use an amount as big as your > | > memory, because it is quite likely that you use at least some part of > | > your physical memory. If you go beyond your physical + swap size, the > | > program will hopefully be terminated if it tries to use all of it. Just > | > try it : ) > | > | other than the memtest, is there any other (better) program I can use to > | test the memory? > | > > There is program memtest86 for x86 arch's in the hwtools package. It > is actually a disk image that you copy to a floppy and it runs from the > floppy on a reboot. Read /usr/doc/hwtools/memtest86.README.gz for > instructions. I don't know if it is better but it something else to > try.
It is much better.... This program I found a while ago and made up boot floppies of... next thing I knew everyone at work wanted one! neat trick: add this to lilo.conf: image=/usr/lib/hwtools/memtest86 label=memtest then run lilo...and you can select it at boot time as another kernel image :) it works great :) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null