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SubjectRe: [OT] how to catch HW fault
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Aaron Lunansky wrote:

> It could very well be your ram (I don't suspect the cpu). If you can, try a
> different stick of ram.

I've found a good exercise for exercising memory faults is to recompile
the kernel with a -j16 flag; and in a second virtual console, do something
like dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=2048k

Either the kernel compile will fail with a sig11, or the dd will fail and
lock the system, in my experience.

I've used this method, crudely, to chase down memory problems in systems
using 256-512MB ram.

YMMV.

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-- In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they aren't.

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