memtest-86 [Was: RE: [olug] kernel panics]

Ryan O'Rourke ryano at ch-gifts.com
Thu Jun 5 13:13:48 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 10:31, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> Since it had been running, What I would check.
> 2. Boot from Gentoo CD or something else and run memtest to verify memory.

I've been running memtest-86 from a boot floppy on a new server I'm
building with 512mb RAM. It's been running for over 17 hours now and
says it's only 35% done? Is this correct? If memtest requires this much
downtime, how can it be a useful tool for a machine that is already in
production?

-- Ryan




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