Stéphane ACOUNIS wrote:
>
> Le Sun, 13 Jul 2003 17:51:00 +0200, Paul Foerster a écrit:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > ... I received the new 2G RAM for my Blade 150 yesterday and put it in
> > the machine. The machine comes up fine reporting 2048M of RAM. I just
> > want to make sure it's really ok and wondered if there's a way to check
> > it, a piece of RAM test software like "memtest86" for Linux or something
> > like that.
> >
> > I'd be glad if someone can point me to such a thing. Thanks very much in
> > advance.
>
> There is SUNvts to test a machine. It is downloadable from Sun's site.
>
> --
> Stéphane ACOUNIS

Just a word of causion. SunVTS refuses to run on my system (U80)
running Solaris 9. Whether this specically effects the U80 or not I
don't know, but I can't get it to run. Someone has pointed out to me
there is a patch for SunVTS, but that patch is not downloadable
without a contract. Hence I've been unable to obtain the patch, so
can't run SunVTS. When I had memory problems, I wanted to run it.

You should also check any messages in /var/adm/messages. You can see I
had a problem during on U3004 during April, which was solved by
Dataram replacing the DIMM.

sparrow /export/home/davek % grep -i memory /var/adm/messages | tail
-10
Apr 25 02:41:31 sparrow unix: [ID 596940 kern.warning] WARNING: [AFT0]
1506 soft errors in less than 24:00 (hh:mm) detected from Memory
Module U0304
Apr 25 02:41:31 sparrow SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 287855 kern.info]
[AFT0] errID 0x00042771.f8b90e0e Corrected Memory Error on U0304 is
Persistent
Apr 25 02:41:31 sparrow SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 249127 kern.info]
[AFT0] Corrected Memory Error detected by CPU3, errID
0x00042771.f8bcc448
Apr 25 02:41:31 sparrow UDBH Syndrome 0x58 Memory Module U0304
Apr 25 02:41:31 sparrow unix: [ID 596940 kern.warning] WARNING: [AFT0]
1507 soft errors in less than 24:00 (hh:mm) detected from Memory
Module U0304
Apr 25 02:41:31 sparrow SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 114004 kern.info]
[AFT0] errID 0x00042771.f8bcc448 Corrected Memory Error on U0304 is
Persistent
Apr 25 02:41:31 sparrow SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 545013 kern.info]
[AFT0] Corrected Memory Error detected by CPU3, errID
0x00042771.f8c09093
Apr 25 02:41:31 sparrow UDBH Syndrome 0x58 Memory Module U0304
Apr 25 02:41:31 sparrow unix: [ID 596940 kern.warning] WARNING: [AFT0]
1508 soft errors in less than 24:00 (hh:mm) detected from Memory
Module U0304
Apr 25 02:41:31 sparrow SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 386393 kern.info]
[AFT0] errID 0x00042771.f8c09093 Corrected Memory Error on U0304 is
Persistent
sparrow /export/home/davek %

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Department of Medical Physics,
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