Ismet -- If you really want to test the RAM on your system, get memtest86+, which is a boot time program that you can invoke. It goes into /boot, and you can add an option to /boot/grub/menu.lst to make it a boot time option in lieu of booting the Linux kernel.
memtest is a user space program that you can use to test RAM after booting Linux, but I don't have much experience with it. memtest86 (a predecessor of memtest86+) once helped me identify a defective RAM SIM as the cause of flakiness on a PC - the problem was a single bit defect at a single RAM location. -- Bhaskar On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:07 -0600, Ismet Kursunoglu wrote: > Off topic but I thought that others would benefit greatly from knowing > about > this application of mprime, namely for stress testing your system > prior to deploying > it into production. > > http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm > > I have been running it for 24 hours as a final test prior to > configuring > our systems for production. So far I picked up one error that appears > to be > related to a faulty chip-set fan. > > I have heard of others using it as a check on their Beowulf clusters. > > -- > Ismet B. Kursunoglu, MD, FCCP > > Medical Director > Alaska Clinic, LLC > 3750 Country Field Circle, UNIT B > Wasilla, Alaska 99654 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (907)357-7240 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD > SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
