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

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:56:10AM -0400, Ed McCorduck wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> > 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)
>  
> > <snippage>
> > 
> > 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?

About halfway down the screen is the area where it will list the
errors.  If it goes all the way through one pass without any errors,
then your memory is _probably_ okay.  If (with the case and covers on)
it goes through two passes without errors, then you can be 99.98%
certain it's all okay.

> If it
> finds anything amiss, will an error message just jump out at me?

More or less, as above.

> And if
> it does find problems, will it fix or try to fix them itself

No.

> or would I need another utility for that?

Well, your hands and some money. :-)  There is no way to fix bad
memory except by replacing it.  I don't know of any way to map out bad
memory.

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

Cheers,
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