Diagnostics

[Ed Wilts]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:06:51AM -0700, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote:
> We run a lot of Redhat servers an on occasion we run into systems that
> appear to have a hardware issue.  Does anyone have reccomendations of a
> good diagnostics software we can run on these systems to quickly
> determine if we have hardware issues (memory, cpu etc)?  Maybe a live cd
> with diagnostics?  We are looking for something apart from the standard
> Linux tools (/var/log/messages etc).  

Other people have mentioned the vendor's tools - which you'll certainly
want to troubleshooting your systems - but don't forget about memtest86.
It comes in a standalone version that you boot from.

http://www.memtest86.com/

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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