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Seems like running memtest every six months or so would be a good policy. It would be nice if there were a way to test the memory while a machine is running.
by Estragon 17y ago
Seems like running memtest every six months or so would be a good policy.
It would be nice if there were a way to test the memory while a machine is running.
- regularfry 17y agoI remember someone-somewhere saying that in their experience building GCC was a more thorough memory test than memtest itself...
- psranga 17y agoThe errors we're talking about here are transient. The memory location itself is still usable, the contents get changed when a cosmic ray hits. After the hit, the corrupted value is held without a problem. Memtest checks if the memory location has a gross fault which prevents it from storing values correctly. Doesn't seem like memtest will help.
- Estragon 17y agoGood point. Thanks.