stability of RHEL ES 4 (was: RE: trouble installing/running the Domain Name Service Configuration Tool)

[Ed McCorduck]

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> Rick Stevens
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 1:00 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: stability of RHEL ES 4 (was: RE: trouble 
> installing/running the Domain Name Service Configuration Tool)
 
> >>The first thing you should do is boot off the first CD and
> >>run memtest86 on your machine.  Many times this sort of 
> >>instability is caused by flakey memory (Linux beats on memory 
> >>much harder than Windows).  You should also take the time to 
> >>do a little maintenance on your machine.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks, Rick. That was something I wanted to find, a good 
> Linux disk 
> > utility/tester. Just one question: do I need special parameters for 
> > memtest86? I ran it off the boot CD as you suggested, and now it 
> > appears it's repeating itself after already having gone 
> through each 
> > of its seven or so tests. I make that newbie judgment by 
> noticing once 
> > that after "Test" it read "98%" and was on "Test #7" but 
> now it's back 
> > to 28% and on "Test #4" (I actually did catch it running 
> Tests #1 and 
> > #2 again, too).
> 
> memcheck86 will loop until you stop it, so what you're seeing 
> is normal. If you look at its display, it shows which key to 
> hit to stop it (I think it's "CTRL-C", but I won't swear to it).
> 
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Thanks, Rick. Obviously, I haven't used memtest86 very much, so could
you tell me what I should be looking for on its report screen? If it
finds anything amiss, will an error message just jump out at me? And if
it does find problems, will it fix or try to fix them itself or would I
need another utility for that?


Ed McCorduck
Ed.McCorduck at Cortland.edu
http://McCorduck.ws