Mem test

[Niles Rogoff]

There should be a number on the table under the column "passes". I usually stop at 2, for extended tests I run to 8.

That number assumes for memtest64+ 1.60

> On Aug 10, 2014, at 14:01, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 08/10/2014 05:57 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>> Good evening
>> I was advised to run a "Mem test" on my machine.
>> After some study to find out how that is done, I started it last night.
>> 
>> This test is running now for 17 hours and keeps going .. no end "in sight" (there is no indication when this ends)
>> (while the numbers at the top of the screen keep chaning, at the bottom it saysä
>> ***** Pass complete, no errors, press Escape to exit *****)
>> 
>> 17 hours! Is this normal?
>> What is this thing checking, that takes so long? (HDD = 320 GB)
>> 
>> Just wondering whether I should "escape" ...
>> 
>> Thomas
> That's completely normal. You run the test for as long as you think it might
> take to find an error, then you press escape and go on to other things.
> Seventeen hours ought to be long enough, I would guess. But it's not an
> unusual time to run the test.
> 
> --doug
> 
> 
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