System Flakyness

[Kevin Brown]

OK, well after over 18 hours running memtest86 still hasn't found a thing wrong
with the memory.  So if the problem isn't specifically EQ (stupid verant), then
I guess I should look into seeing if maybe the CPU (Athlon 650, not overclocked)
is getting just a little too warm, and if so, get some better cooling
fans/whatever for it.  I'm using the fan/heatsink that came with it in the box
from AMD.

> 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.