I am loading a memory filesystem up to test the memory out(32GB) and i can write zeros to it and read them back out using the following commands

IN
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/shm/zero.dd

OUT
dd if=/dev/shm/zero.dd of=/dev/null



My question is that when i check the memory 'top' command and see that is completely full after running the above commands, who do i unload the memory so that is goes back down?

I can continure loading the memory but i dont know how to unload it or what the specific command would be?

Any help appreciated!!!

thx

Scott

Just rm /dev/shm/zero.dd

There are better ways to test memory. Some Linux distro CD-ROMs include a "memtest86" bootable system which does stand-alone intensive memory testing.

Memtest86 is a decent program for checking walking address lines and scanning the modules for errors, however, it does not fully load the modules down. Memtest has issues testing the amount of memory that I am running (total of 64GB in a DL585).

By using my above mentioned command it will load the entire system with zeros until there is no more room and then by reading them back out it changes each value across the board again. By doing this several times in a row you can find out how stable your machine is under load.