On Sun, January 18, 2009 20:38, Anon Y Mous wrote: > My favorite thing about OpenSolaris is that it will find bad RAM faster > than any other operating system that I've ever used. It will always crash > during boot up, or during OS install, or when downloading or uploading a > large file, whereas Windows Server 2003 will run for months on the bad RAM > before your web site gets popular and it gets hit with a heavy load and > then leaves you suddenly wondering why it's spontaneously rebooting itself > every 2 or 3 hours.
I *hope* my problem is as simple as bad ram. Is memtest86 going to find things that cause Solaris to reboot? Or how do I go about verifying the theory that it might be caused by memory? (Obviously removing some sticks is another way.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
