Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] CPU clock - beware
From: tim hall (tech_AT_glastonburymusic.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 25 2004 - 04:26:13 EEST
Last Saturday 24 July 2004 13:40, robin fell was like:
> On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 13:21, tim hall wrote:
> > Well, I'm running at 100MHz x 6 right now.
> > I take full responsibility for my actions.
> > Are there any signs I should watch out for?
>
> if at all possible, you should run memtest86 (or similar) for a few
> hours to ensure the memory performance hasn't suffered. i keep a
> memtest86 on my grub boot menu at all times.
>
> the poor man's test would be to stress the hell outta your box with lots
> of heavy lifting - perhaps recompiling the kernel over, and over, and
> over again to see if strange gcc errors occur. such strange errors are
> usually an indication of an unhappy cpu or memory.
Well, memtest86 sounds easy enough.
Thanks.
tim hall
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