Bill Jonas on Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:11:32 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] ram tests


On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:37:10PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> do you know of any hardcore ram test software for linux which will do
> read and write tests on the ram of a machine?

If you're running Debian, install the hwtools and the sysutils packages;
these will give you memtest and memtest86, among other things.  If you
don't do .debs, then I'd say plunk memtest and mentest86 into Google and
Freshmeat.

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