topic Re: memtest in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

memtest

hass_2k — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:46:49 GMT

guys im sorry if i make any distrupe but i need solution for this
when i run the cmd memtest in SRM ruslte for that is 00000000 is not valid zone address Use dynamic to list valid Zone this the erro im getting but when i do reboot it change can any one tell me the defnition for this plz
thanking you hass

Re: memtest

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:39:43 GMT

Hi,

why do you want to do an explicit memory test? The normal test will do that too. Have a look at
http://ftp.digital.com/pub/digital/info/semiconductor/literature/srmcons.pdf
and look for the desciption of memtest. There are some examples of how to use it.

greetings,

Michael

Re: memtest

Ivan Ferreira — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:38:21 GMT

Just one information. Once we had a system with problems, memexer (command that test the memory) did not detected any problems, but as you start the system and run some memory intensive application, or a simple backup with the vdump command, the system crashed. So, I won't trust too much in memexer.

Re: memtest

Arch_Muthiah — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:33:09 GMT

Hass,

Memtest is very critical cmnd, does four difft types (t1 thru t4) of intensive mem tests. To make it work, better we have to supply correct parameters, especially we should specify the section of memory we want to test. The important thing I hope you know is that the memtest command will destroy the data in the specified section of
memory we passed!!!.

Archunan

Re: memtest

Arch_Muthiah — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:38:58 GMT

Hass,

Unless otherwise you do research on this error for others, google won't get any good answer for this type of question, see this thread on the same error...

http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2004/11/msg00041.html

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/browse_thread/thread/15cdeac3ce96834a/b10be84e29dcf564?lnk=st&q=alpha+memtest+not+valid+zone+address+dynamic&rnum=1&hl=en#b10be84e29dcf564

Archunan