[ale] MD5 Problems on RedHat7

[Jeff Hubbs]

I can vouch for memtest86.  Over the past couble of days I've been weeding
through a pile of SIMMs at home.  I ran into one of the situations described
under "Known Problems" where a mobo does not correctly report the end of
RAM, so memtest86 will get to that line and just explode with errors.  The
workaround is to set an upper bound in memtest86 and then all is cool, my
only niggle being that there's not a good way to set upper/lower bounds
before starting the test...

Other than that, it's been great - one of those floppies any self-respecting
geek should carry around, right next to tomsrtbt.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Z. Ayers [mailto:eric.ayers at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 6:23 AM
> To: David C. Hicks
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] MD5 Problems on RedHat7
> 
> 
> I had strange problems on my machine and it turned out to be a cooling
> problem.  I replaced the heatsink/fan and things worked out much
> better.  
> 
> There is a way to run some tests the raw hardware and eliminate the OS
> alltogether.  Look for the program memtest86
> You can look it up on freshmeat or try:
> 
> http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86/
> 
> 
> "David C. Hicks" wrote:
> > 
> > I have been experiencing severe problems with MD5 and other 
> checksums on
> > my RedHat7 box.  Has anyone else come across such issues?  
> I thought it
> > may have been an SMP problem because the box is a dual-processor PII
> > (300), but I tried running a single-processor kernel and got similar
> > results.
> > 
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