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Old 13th October 2011
lumiwa lumiwa is offline
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Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker View Post
There's nothing wrong with memtest86, memtest86+ has a few new features and support for newer chipsets/CPU's (Which you don't have), but it's not fundamentally "better". No need to run it again. I just wanted to make sure you didn't just run memtest for something like 15 minutes (Which is what many people do)

You seem to have a Pentium D CPU, and they do tend to get hot.
I don't quite remember how to get the CPU Temperature on the P4, you can try:
# sysctl -a | grep C\$

And see if that turns up anything.

You can test your temperature by starting in one xterm a "temperature monitor script":
Code:
#!/bin/sh
while 1; do
  clear
  sysctl dev.cpu.0.temperature dev.cpu.1.temperature | tee temp.log
  sleep 1
done
... Assuming you get your temperature from dev.cpu.?.temperature ...

Then load both cores 100%, the easiest way is to use Python, do this twice:
# python -c '9999999999999999999999**9999999999999999999999999 9'

Leave it running for 20 minutes, if the system doesn't reboot and the temperature stays reasonable (<~80°C) you probably don't have a heating problem ...
Thank you very much for the help. I did everything as you wrote and I didn't find a problem and computer still running (about one week) and I compile gcc, firefox... and there were no problems.
I think that is problem when I restart computer. Sometimes I have a problems as I describe but after few reboots is okay.. And as I wrote box is old about eleven years and I start thinking about new one .
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