System Flakyness

[Tom Bradford]

Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> the flaky machine is running 98, but I have Linux (RH6.2) on my P150.  I guess I
> could try to make a linux boot floppy to run a program like that from.  You
> wouldn't happen to have code to do that would you?

Actually, the program I wrote was in Delphi under Windows...  You could
also just as easily write a quick Java program to do it.

public class MemTest {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      java.util.List lst = new java.util.ArrayList();
      for ( ;; ) 
         lst.add(new Object());
   }
}

Compile it 

javac MemTest.java

and start it with the following command line:

java -Xms16m -Xmx256m MemTest

You'll want to set -Xmx256m to some value that is greater than or equal
to your system RAM to be sure that the VM doesn't crap out on you.

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