On Monday November 18 2002 06:04 pm, RichardA wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just bought some new hardware. Plugged it all together,
> installed MDK 8.2, booted and it locked up.
> I added 'mem=nopentium' to lilo.conf, it booted to KDE, I opened a
> terminal and ran 'top' overnight.
>
> So that's fine, yes? Except that it has embedded graphics and uses 8
> MB of system memory, according to the BIOS messages. Doesn't that
> mean I should tell the kernel to only use 248 MB?
I'd suggest adding mem=247M to you lilo.conf append line, if
you also have onboard sound use mem=245M That prevents the kernel
from trying to use memory that's not really there (available).
> What if it's only running while nothing overwrites that 8 MB? Has
> anyone got a script that will stress-test it? Or alternatively, can
> someone tell me to pull myself together and not worry about crashes
> that aren't happening?
>
> RichardA
'urpmi memtest86' will install it from your CD's, and add it as
a boot option. Reboot and choose memtest86-xxx. Let it run over
night. You should see -0- errors collected. It's a fairly mild stress
test. If you pass it then get http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ and run
the appropriate module for your cpu, eg, 'burnK7' for an athlon. There
might be a cpuburn rpm (cpuburn-1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm) on your CD's, so try
'urpmi cpuburn'. The system should be able to run cpuburn for at least
an hour. If it can, your system is damn near bulletproof.
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