Re: memtest
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:46:22AM -0500, servis@purdue.edu 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
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