System Flakyness

[Tom Bradford]

Kevin Brown wrote:
> OK, not totally linux related, but hoping someone might have some suggestions.
> I have an Athlon 650 running Win98SE (yeah I know, boo, hiss), but I use it for
> games and such that don't exist for linux (Everquest).  My system has been
> acting up (Blue Screen of Death, etc...) and since these behaviors seem to have
> become a common occurance (well more often than usual) in recent months I'm
> beginning to suspect hardware trouble.  I was wondering if anyone knew of a
> utility (windows, dos or linux) that could do things like test my systems memory
> for errors to see if that is the culprit.

In the past, to test memory issues, I've written programs that allocate
objects in a loop (without deallocating, of course), and while they're
running, I just monitor the memory usage.  In doing this, I was able to
diagnose that one of the memory sticks on my Dell was locking up the
system consistently at 88megs of RAM usage.

It works, and if you have a compiler of some type, it's easy enough to
do.

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