[ltp] RAM freezing

[Martin Fluch]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Nico D wrote:

> MF> IMHO these crashes are most likely due to the kernel or bad hardware (for
> MF> the later add the option -j to the line MAKE = make in the Makefile of the
> MF> kernel and recompile it ... it should be quite a nice RAM test, since
> MF> there will be several instances of gcc lunched simultaneous and gcc is
> MF> reacts very sensitive on bad RAM).

...

> How should I interpret the freezing of RAM bios test?
> Does RAM bios test really matter?  Please let me know. Thanks.

compiling the kernel as above is quite a relyable method to test ram,
since the gcc is quite sensitive to bad ram. I have heard from a memtest
package under debian, which should be even more sensitive ... I will ask a
friend of my for that package...

Martin

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