On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:41:27AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> Memory tests don't find anything but the most basic problems...
> 
> if you want to find out about memory, run "make clean; make" for a=20
> kernel.

This is exactly my experience.  Even running "testmem.exe" for about 3
days will not detect memory errors that building a kernel will.  In
layman's terms, why is this?  Does anyone know of a program that will
stress memory like building a kernel to find those insidious hardware
errors?  TIA.

henry nelson