25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
5:31 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Jim Leonard once stated:
Philip Pemberton wrote:
I've found that compiling the Linux kernel to be an excellent test of a
system.
-spc (And if GCC failed compiling the kernel, it was almost always a
sign of bad memory ... )
The only surefire RAM check is MemTest86 left for
a few hours
in "burn in" mode.
You can't trust this 100%. We had a problem with a SuperMicro board; database
kept getting scrambled occaisionally. Ran memtest86 on burn-in mode for 24
hours -- never found a problem -- boot back into the OS and bam, scrambled data
again. When we replaced one of the memory sticks as a last ditch effort, it
fixed the problem.