[Gllug] frustrated with Linux

[Mark Lowes]

On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 02:28, Steve Nicholson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:38:15AM +0000, Ashley Evans wrote:
> > 
> > As a quick side note you could try memtest86 to check the RAM, I had a
> > similar problem with random lock-ups that turned out to be RAM.
> > memtest86 and a patch to the linux kernel can work around faulty RAM by
> > forcing the bad cells in the RAM to not be used at all. I haven't
> > actually tried this because the RAM was under warranty but it could be a
> > good way to keep the old box running as a non-critical system.
> 
> Thanks I'll try this out now.

I'd recommend it almost all the problems I've seen with boxes having
problems crashing / locking over the last seven years have ended up
being tracked down to faulty hardware of one type or other.

   Mark (needing to memtest challenger[1])


[1] Not my fault SWMBO decided to name the new box challenger after
    seeing the box make was "shuttle".  Talk about cursing the box
    before it's been built.

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