Check out memtest86. If you do find some bad ram, a kernel patch exists so that Linux will ignore those areas, still allowing you to use it. I have not tried either but I remember coming across them. The kernel patch package is kernel-patch-badram On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 16:44, Norman Walsh wrote: > Anyway, I suspect that it has some bad RAM. Programs just sporadically > crash on it (with a segfault, most often). Shell scripts, emacs, > vncviewer, a browser, you name it, they all run sometimes and crash > sometimes. Sometimes they crash right away, sometimes they run for a > while. > - - Are there other possibilities? > - - Are there any Linux tools that I can use to test the integrity of > physical RAM? > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > Keith Geffert <keith@penguingurus.com>
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