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Philip Juels wrote:
> I'm running into random seg faults during KDE and Gnome compilation, and 
> I and others on the list suspect faulty RAM.  Are there any utils out 
> there that can test/diagnose RAM (aside from the laughable BIOS POST).

Kinda late now, I know, but I highly recommend the "Ultimate Boot CD",
which contains dozens of great system test programs, all on one bootable
CD:

http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/

-- 
Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog:
     http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/

UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.