"paul.nutton" wrote:
>
> "Paul Foerster" <paul.foerster@gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:berv51$8h2cf$1@ID-3726.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > 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.

It's worth looking at /var/adm/messages too. As you can see, I had a
problem back in April, which thankfully was fixed by replacing a
couple of DIMMs. Over 3 months now since I had a corrected memory
error, so given Sun say about 3/day is acceptable, I think I'm okay.
You can see I did get as many as 1508 errors in one day, but the
system still worked okay.

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 %

SunVTS is another option. However, I can't get that to work under
Solaris 9 and since I don't have a support contract, I can't download
the required patch. It's possible it might be fixed if I used a later
version of Solaris, but I can't be bothered to mess about doing that.


--
Dr. David Kirkby,
Senior Research Fellow,
Department of Medical Physics,
University College London,
11-20 Capper St, London, WC1E 6JA.
Tel: 020 7679 6408 Fax: 020 7679 6269
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e-mail davek@medphys.ucl.ac.uk