CPU/Memory test for Dell PowerEdge?

Matthew Gillen me at mattgillen.net
Tue Jul 26 09:27:48 EDT 2005


The actual string you should use is: memtest86
--Matt

Matthew Gillen wrote:
> I'm pretty sure you can boot from any version of a fedora install disk
> (disk #1 of course) and at the "boot:" prompt type 'memtest'
> 
> --Matt
> Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> 
>>I'm looking for a free CPU/Memory intensive testing program for a Dell
>>Poweredge 2500.    I'm trying to locate the reason why it reboots at
>>random times, but nothing in the logs show a problem.   I want to
>>narrow it down to hardware or OS (Win NT).   I plan to run the testing
>>continuously overnight.    It would be great if it could also log
>>error results.
>>
>>I have the Dell Diags program and still need to look at the
>>granularity of testing it offers.   It would be ideal to have
>>something which performs a continuous full test of the CPU and memory
>>of at least a gig.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Scott
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