On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:37:24AM +1000, fish wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:54:37AM +0200, Michael Schierl wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:53:04 -0700, Martin Stone Davis wrote:
> > 
> > > If I have faulty hardware, how am I supposed to tell?  I'm not having 
> > > any problems with other applications (one of which is memory intensive).
> > 
> > http://www.memtest86.com/
> > 
> > Run it for several hours (if you can). 
> 
> it should be pointed out, that on systems with more than about 128meg of ram,
> memtest86 is actually completly useless, because it cannot do the required
> amounts of tests on a current system within even a week.  There is a big long
> explanation, but basically, because we don't have maps of the way the ram 
> is internally layed out, it has to do tests that run in 2^n time, where n
> is the amount of ram yoou have.  
> 
> as n gets bigger... well, you know...

Works fine here. Takes ~ an hour per pass (not with ALL tests enabled).
1GB RAM, XP 2800+, DDR 2700CL2.5 RAM.
> 
> 
>       -- jj
> 
> -- 
> I'm sick and fucking tired of not getting people drunk.
>    -- blixco, http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/20/105121/869

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