Em Ter, 2004-02-24 às 03:11, Keith G. Robertson-Turner escreveu: (....) > On several systems I've repaired, memtest86 passed every time, but a > kernel rebuild loop caused segfaults. Replace the ram, no more segfaults. There are some options in memtest86 which can test memory modules deeper.. Are you sure not even these would find anything? This worries me, as memtest86 is a kind of standard testing tool for several people. > IMHO unless you're testing a system using heavy I/O stressing, which > really pushes the load on the masked areas of memory, you're not going to > get a result. This is probably correct, but do you know any kind of open-source swiss-knife tool which could do such a stress test, I say without compromising the system (as with kernel segfaults?) -- []s Alexandre Ganso 500 FOUR vermelha - Diretor Steel Goose Moto Group