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Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages



On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net> was heard to say:
> On Friday 14 November 2008, "Jeff Soules" <soules@gmail.com> wrote 
> about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and 
> corrupted .DEB packages':
> >Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory testing suite that should work with
> >anything in the i386-amd64 family.
> 
> Yeah, but it's not actually that good at testing memory, and certainly not 
> at seeing if Linux in particular has any problems with your memory.

  Do you have a reference for that?  I've had good luck with memtest86,
and the memtester documentation isn't very informative on this point.
The main nuisance is that you have to arrange to boot directly into
memtest.

  Daniel


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