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> From: Kenneth Jacker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 3:04 AM
> To: Basham, Richard R
> Subject: Re: [rtl] Memory test
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> Richard> Thanks everyone, I'll try your suggestions.
>
> Were the suggestions sent to the list?
>
> If not, I (and probably others) would be interested in any responses
> you have received. I didn't see any ...
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> Thanks,
>
> --
> Prof Kenneth H Jacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Computer Science Dept www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
> Appalachian State Univ
> Boone, NC 28608 USA
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> From: Basham, Richard R[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 4:29 PM
> To: 'RT-Linux'
> Subject: [rtl] Memory test
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> I know this is a little off topic but I am having a strange intermittent
> problems with an RT-Linux project that has been running for nearly
> a year now. I am starting to suspect a memory problem and I was
> wondering if anyone knows of a good memory test program.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rich
>
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> From: Kulwinder Atwal[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 5:18 AM
> To: Basham, Richard R
> Subject: Re: [rtl] Memory test
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> What exactly are the strange intermittent problems?
>
> Maybe there's a patch for it already.
>
> Has the code been running continuously for the whole year?
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> From: Basham, Richard R
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:06 AM
> To: Basham, Richard R; 'Kulwinder Atwal'
> Subject: RE: [rtl] Memory test
>
> The longest contiguous run time is about 4 months. But it has
> been in use for about a year. The problems I am seeing vary a little.
> The basic problem manifests itself as a lockup of the x window
> system. Sometimes the operator can kill the process and restart it.
> Other times the system is locked up so tight that the only recourse
> is to reset or power off the machine.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
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> From: Philip N Daly[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: Philip N Daly
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 7:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [rtl] Memory test
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>
> have you tried the mbuffex tester? Check out the document at
> www.realtimelinux.org/documentation.html. You'll have to change
> the LOOPS value but it should work under standard Linux. If you want
> to do something under RT-Linux you'll have to change a couple of calls
> in Rmem.c which was written for RTAI.
>
> +==================================================================+
> Phil Daly, NOAO/AURA, 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson AZ 85719, U S A
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] V-mail: (520) 318 8438 Fax: (520) 318 8360
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> From: Wirz Dieter[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 12:06 PM
> To: Basham, Richard R
> Subject: Re: [rtl] Memory test
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>
> Try the small DOS (:-() Program Ctram51.exe.
> You will find it on
> http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/
> under
> "ctRAMtst - Hauptspeichertest, Version 5.1".
> It migth be in german, but you will be able to use it anyway.
> It's quite ingenious: The Program runs from the Video Memory, and it
> checks all the RAM running from there.
> To run it, you have to copy it to a bootable DOS floppy.
>
> -didi
>
>
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> From: Kulwinder Atwal[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 3:54 AM
> To: Basham, Richard R
> Subject: Re: [rtl] Memory test
>
> Does it lock up when not using X?
> Which X GUI are you using?
> Some are better than others. KDE on Linux seems to be the most stable.
> I had some intermittent lockup problems with Gnome, and Red Hat tech
> support suggested that I switch to KDE.
>
> There are some user commands at the command line that will show you
> system resource usage (like memory). Have you tried any of them?
> There are also system calls that will return this info in a data>
> structure. Have you tried adding any to your code? Maybe saving the
> data in a file, and date stamping it?
>
>
> - Kal.
>
>
>
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> From: John VanLoon[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 1:33 PM
> To: Basham, Richard R
> Subject: RE: [rtl] Memory test
>
> Yes,
> Try compiling the linux kernel with gcc. If it fails with sig 11 ??? then
> you probably have some bad memory.
> John
>
>
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