system excercising/burn-in tests?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Aug 17, 2005, at 16:14, Jim Kuzdrall wrote:

> SuSE includes a memory test on their CD, but
> Linux must have something someplace.

I've heard that running a memory test under a booted system can only 
test X percentage of the memory because certain portions of memory are 
non-relocatable (kernel maybe?).  Anybody know if this is true?  I'm 
not sure if the distros put memtest86 on the disc for convenience or 
necessity.

-Bill

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