Hello!

I am having reliability problems on my Blue and White Power Mac G3 and Yellow Dog Linux.

Does anyone know a good PPC Linux system diagnostics program? I particular I want a good memory test program!

Cheers

Al

Try searching for 'memtest' in your package manager. I'm sure you will find one.

ummm... nope cant find one there...

What I really want is a port of the x86 tool 'memtest'...

Al

$ apt-cache show memtester
Package: memtester
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 100
Maintainer: Oliver Kurth <oku@debian.org>
Architecture: powerpc
Version: 2.93.1-3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21)
Conflicts: sysutils (<= 1.3.8.5.1)
Filename: pool/main/m/memtester/memtester_2.93.1-3_powerpc.deb
Size: 22110
MD5sum: 5e481917e5827e58dd375287ac796ba3
Description: A utility for testing the memory subsystem
memtest is a utility for testing the memory subsystem
in a computer to determine if it is faulty.
Tag: role::sw-utility

Friendly,

Sven Luther

$ esearch memtester
[ Results for search key : memtester ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* sys-apps/memtester
Latest version available: 4.0.3
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 15 kB
Homepage: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/memtester/
Description: Memory testing utility
License: GPL-2

Ar!

Sorry guess I am a LINUX admin newbie! Never had my 'own' install before and had to use such tools!

Thanks!

Al

If you had a Pegasos I would recommend getting the
Mupper Rescue CD which contains memtester.

So I save that advice for the rest of you.. You can never
have enough rescue CD's.