UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi,

Which tools or method is popular, simple and effective, to check memory such as bad sector, throughput and performance?

Thank you.

- j

Hi hce,

Have used this in the past, did the job for me.

Regards

Dave

"bad sector" sounds awkward here, RAM is not organized in sectors, do you mean "hard disk storage"?

Thanks gull04 for the link of Memtest86, I heard that a lot, but not quite sure if it is the most popular tool for Linux memory as well.

You right, precisely, it should be called pages in memory, but in the software world, those words are interchangeable.

Thanks.

- j

Hi hce,

To get the most popular tool, you'd have to carry out an in depth survey.

I thought you'd just want one that would do the job.

Regards

Dave

Operating system is irrelevant, memtest86 is a standalone tool. It literally needs no operating system at all(in fact, one would get in the way) -- it only requires a bootloader. It seems to come bundled with almost any kind of rescue disk there is as an afterthought -- if there's a few extra K of empty space, they stick it in as an alternate "kernel", why not. It's popular enough I haven't seen many alternatives at all.

It is x86 and x86-64 only, of course.