<sorta ot>Memtest86

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Tom Wilson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> First time I've used memtest86 and I am running it on a couple machines
> here at work. I was wondering does it stop itself or will it just keep
> going through the tests again and again and again.  It's been running
> for 42 hrs on one machine and I wasn't sure if I need to stop it or
> not.

It runs indefinitely.  1 or 2 passes are usually sufficient for catching
99% of problems.

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