Re: machine hangs: solved!
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
> If a system fails under memtest, particularly if if fails repeatedly at
> or near the same point, I'd suspect bad memory despite any program
> output.
I didn't, since it was failing regardless of memtest after a few
hours' uptime.
> Running for five hours suggests that memtest had cycled through all
> memory several times. IIRC it only took a few minutes (maybe ten or
> twenty, but certainly less than an hour) to complete a full test cycle
> through my 128 MB.
On my version the default tests (1-8 or something like that) take only
a few minutes, if you enable all the tests you have something like
half a day's worth. -chris
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