System Flakyness

[Kevin Brown]

Bah, chock one up to stupidity.  My mouse has moved your system needs to restart
for the changes to take effect.  It got bumped both times while I was doing
stuff on the other system.  So I moved it off to the side and upside down.  Now
it made it to test 6.  Well, it will have to wait till morning (the site says it
could take as long as 5.5 hours to complete the full tests).

> OK, well I gave memtest86 (www.memtest86.com) a shot.  It gets to test 4 (Moving
> inv, 32 bit pattern, cached) and after less than 15 minutes of total running
> time the system just reboots.  I don't see any error messages popping up on the
> screen, so I guess it is safe to assume that the memory is most likely trouble
> and the error is fatal.  Guess I need to find the receipt and figure out how to
> deal with the lifetime warranty of it to get it replaced (yep Fry's RAM).
> 
> Is this a fair assessment?
> 
> > > linux) that could do things like test my systems memory for errors to see
> > > if that is the culprit.
> >
> > Check for memtest. It's in sysutils in debian.
> >
> > Other packages:
> >
> > bonnie++ - This is Russell Coker's hard drive bottleneck testing program
> > crashme - Stress tests operating system stability
> > hwtools - Collection of tools for low-level hardware management
> > purity - Automated purity testing software.
> > purity-off - Sex related purity tests
> >
> > Those last two might not be so helpful ;-).
> >
> > Info from hwtools:
> >
> >   irqtune: adjusts priority of interrupts (improves serial performance),
> >   scanport: scans for hardware not already handled by Linux drivers,
> >   memtest86: a real mode memory test,
> >   memmxtest: another real mode memory test, but with MMX support.