On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Ville Herva wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, John Newman wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a good app to stress test the memory in my
> > Linux box? I'm getting these strange lockups in a BP6 where
>
> As for a good memory tester, try:
>
> http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/
>
> As for BP6 locking up, this is a know problem, propably not related to
> Linux. For some, the new QQ bios seem to have fixed it. I can't say for
> sure yet.
>
> Tim Fletcher wrote:
> >
> > Have you been running vmware for long? If I remember correctly vmware
> > does kernel modifactions, are these known to be smp safe?
>
> The lockups usually happen during long standing cpu load (possibly more
> prone to fpu action), but sometimes they seem to happen with no reason at
> all. I think vmware is completely unrelated (I've had it running perhaps
> during one lockup, it was not running during the ~8 others.)
>
> You can join linux-abit@geek.net mailing list to discuss bp6 issues,
> mail majordomo@geek.net to join.
>
>
> -- v --
>
> v@iki.fi
>
I've had the BP6 running now with the new BIOS for two weeks with
distributed.net client running 24/7. Everything works perfect.
/Richard
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