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