testing memory

[Jeff]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:08:24 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> On Friday 25 June 2004 09:01 am, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:50:00AM -0400, Johnson, Shaunn wrote:
>>
>>> Is there some tool or method for testing memory?
>>> I'm getting general kernel panics and I've gone
>>> though all of my hardware replacing and removing
>>> and all I have left is the memory.
>>>
>>
>> A good standalone tool on Intel-class machines is memtest86.  You
>> can google for it; a specific location I found is
>>
>
> http://www.memtest86.com
>
>
> It's a really cool software. The latest version comes with a
> bootable iso, just burn it to CD and boot from it, it'll run the
> test directly. The webpage is also helpful to read first.
>


not sure about RH EL, but RH9 (and fedora?) has memtest86 on the installation disc - just type memtest86 at the boot prompt.

Jeff