[Gllug] frustrated with Linux

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 02 Mar, 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.
> 
> Steve.
> 
   Is the BIOS set to cut holes in the memory, for example copying the BIOS
into RAM (commonly used in M$) or allocating RAM permanently for video use?
Generally Linux will allocate memory more efficiently itself.

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Chris Bell


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