Yes, memtest is useful alright. I'm more interested in monitoring a running system rather than verifying hardware with tests that require the system to be taken offline. Last time I looked you had to boot from the memtest floppy or CD to use it.
Cheers, Michael. >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== >On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Michael wrote: > >> I have a PC here that I have concerns about regarding the health of the system >> and in particular the CPU. I have seen reference to a package that creates a >> /proc/health file if it's supported by the board. I am not sure whether that >> will work and I don't want to install anything more on the system. > >Google for memtest86 it is very Good for testing memory and cache etc. >etc. > >I see there is a memtest86+ project as well. > > >John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 >Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 >PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >New Zealand > >The universe is absolutely plastered with the dashed lines exactly one >space long. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message generated in webmail.
