[sf-lug] memory integrity checking / excluding bad memory

[Sameer Verma]

Alex Kleider wrote:
> Several months ago on a Monday night at the JavaCat, Asheesh and
> Kristian were trying to install onto a laptop that turned out to have
> bad memory; the problem was eventually discovered by checking the
> integrity of the computer's RAM but if I wrote down the command used,
> it's been lost. 
> Can someone let me know, please, what that command is? I've tried to
> google "memory integrity check" but come up with nothing relevant. 
> Also, please, what's the command to exclude the memory that is
> discovered to be bad?
> Thanks,
> alex
>
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Hi Alex,
I wasn't at the meeting, but usually memtest (http://www.memtest.org/)
takes care of that. It is included on many live CD distros such as
Ubuntu. Its an option at boot time.

Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
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