[plug] Memory tester

[Beau Kuiper]

Hi,

the best way to test memory I have found so far is a kernel compile.

try the script in the linux source directory.

while make bzImage; do make clean; done

if it crashes within 1-2 hours, you probably have a memory problem.

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au


On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:21, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> Hi, I think there was a thread on testing memory a few weeks ago but I
> cannot find anything in my old messages from plug so I appologise for
> repeating the subject.  Can someone give the name of a (software
> utility) tester that will exercise sdram on an ASUS board.  A relation
> upgraded his machine after a motherboard failure and now its suffering
> random, total lockups (windoZe of course) and I suspect maybe the old or
> some newly fitted memory may be a cause - it was done by a local (to
> him) store so I do not know the pedigree of what they fitted/changed.
> Searching tucows turns up nothing helpful.
>
> BillK