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My RAM, it not feeling too well I think ...

Hello, all ...

I have a 500mhz Pismo with the stock 12G drive, and 1G of RAM. Lately, when compiling especially (which is much of what I do on it), I get "internal compiler error", erm ... errors. This happened twice with the latest Fink (i'm running 10.2.3) and once building ACE with the latest devtools. Thing is, my tangerine iBook builds all of this stuff just fine (though a bit ... slower). So i'm thinking (again) that one of the memory modules is bad. Another clue -- this Pismo crashes constantly running OS 9 (fresh install) but hasn't crashed yet running OSX.

I don't have the Hardware Test CD that came with the Pismo anymore (the same gnomes who absconded with, like, every other sock of mine, as well as my copy of the "RMS Sings 'I Think I Love You' And Other 70s Hits" double-album, likely stole it), so I was wondering if anyone out there in DarwinLand knew of a good *nix / BSD / Darwin-based memory tester? I tried writing my own (mallocing huge amounts, filling it with a simple test pattern, reading it back to be sure it was cool) but even when mallocing big big big bunches of bytes, 'top' still shows the majority of my 1G as free, so Darwin is smarter than me and my memory tester. The errors don't always happen, so just pulling one out and booting up and trying to compile something doesn't really accomplish much (for instance, now ACE is building and no "internal compiler error" has appeared yet ... go figure).

Regards,

John

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