Does anybody know if this works under SL? Or knows of alternatives to test RAM?
thanks.
MBP, MM, MBP - 10.6 + Windooz XP on a hard partition
Yes, Rember, a GUI front end to the MemTest, does still work under 10.6.8, tested fine here just now.
http://kelleycomputing.net/rember/
Also this info should also come in handy to educate, enjoy. 🙂
ds store wrote:
Also this info should also come in handy to educate, enjoy. 🙂
you must have had fun writing this, good service.
ds store wrote:
Yes, Rember, a GUI front end to the MemTest, does still work under 10.6.8, tested fine here just now.
rather run it from the command line as it has more free memory to test.
X423424X wrote:
I think it works. I just launched it and it seems to be running as I am typing this. You might also want to look at the app called Remember which adds a GUI on to memtest.
Thanks, rather run it from the command line as it has more free memory to test. But good if folk want a GUI.
As you are running it, does this mean in you opinion that while it is running it also works reliable/correctly? Do you think it makes a difference if it runs on a 4 core or 2 core machine to work reliable/correctly?
One think I know now about this tool, with a 6-core and 24 GB of memory it takes an incredible amount of time to run. It's still running as I am typing this and it's about 15 minutes later. It's on a step saying "84 of 256" and not incrementing that fast. I'll probably end up killing it before it completes.
I don't know if this tool is any more accurate (or faster) than the long form of Apple Hardware Test for memory (albeit easier to use since you don't have to boot it).
rather run it from the command line as it has more free memory to test.
Well if the GUI frontend works, so likely will the command line,
but as you know you have to run it from Single User mode, we generally don't recommend that around here because of the dangers involved.
Good info, probably tun it later today. You must be running it through the GUI though as you are working at the same time, or do you have two machines?
I was told that running it form the command line is more aureate as hardly any memory is in use and as such it can test better and faster.
ds store wrote:
but as you know you have to run it from Single User mode, we generally don't recommend that around here because of the dangers involved.
Why is that? I mean what dangers are there? (except from incompetent users :-) )
You must be running it through the GUI though as you are working at the same time, or do you have two machines?
I was told that running it form the command line is more aureate as hardly any memory is in use and as such it can test better and faster.
Actually I simply fired off the command line tool from the terminal. Alt least it shows more feedback instead of just a progress bar you get from Remember.
(and it's still running -- not sure how long this is going to take and it's almost bed time)
X423424X wrote:
Actually I simply fired off the command line tool from the terminal. Alt least it shows more feedback instead of just a progress bar you get from Remember.
ah that is an other way. I would let those things generally run overnight.
Yup, I could do that. But I really only fired it off to be able to reply to your original post. I did do the long AHT when I originally installed the 3x8GB sticks as a matter of principle (early on when I was setting up my machine maybe around last December). And I am not having any indications of problems so I see no point in letting this go to completion. Everything it has reported so far says "ok" anyhow.
By the way, on the concern about available memory to test, I don't know the details about memtest, but the first thing it prints out is the following for my machine:
Requested memory: 20552MB (21550845952 bytes)
Available memory: 20552MB (21550845952 bytes)
Allocated memory: 20552MB (21550845952 bytes) at local address 0x0000000101000000
Now I don't know if it's because I have so much ram or what, but I am running memtest as a terminal process, I'm in the browser typing this, and other apps are loaded as well, but memtest shows it is getting all the memory it thinks is available. Maybe if I wasn't running those other apps, and was in single user mode, then perhaps memtest would go after some of the missing 4GB, but I don't know for sure.
I understand you fired it up for my sake, thanks. Interesting info, thanks for your help.
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