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tim hall wrote:

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> Last Saturday 24 July 2004 13:40, robin fell was like:

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>>On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 13:21, tim hall wrote:

>>

>>>Well, I'm running at 100MHz x 6 right now.

>>>I take full responsibility for my actions.

>>>Are there any signs I should watch out for?

>>

>>if at all possible, you should run memtest86 (or similar) for a few

>>hours to ensure the memory performance hasn't suffered.  i keep a

>>memtest86 on my grub boot menu at all times.

>>

>>the poor man's test would be to stress the hell outta your box with lots

>>of heavy lifting - perhaps recompiling the kernel over, and over, and

>>over again to see if strange gcc errors occur.  such strange errors are

>>usually an indication of an unhappy cpu or memory.

>

>

> Well, memtest86 sounds easy enough.

cpuburn was also mentioned and it's easy too (and generally more

intensive than compiling a kernel).
cheers,

chris