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That's the theory in the article, that this silent corruption is happening all the time and it's just happening in unimportant places or ones that don't trigger
by klagermkii 11y ago
That's the theory in the article, that this silent corruption is happening all the time and it's just happening in unimportant places or ones that don't trigger a noticeable crash.
But why am I not seeing this when explicitly looking for it? If I run Memtest86 for 24 hours I certainly don't expect to see an average of 22 errors and just treat that as within spec. I expect to see no errors. Is it a problem with the memory tests we're using, do we need ones which just write data once and then wait a day to read and validate it rather than hammering RAM with reads and writes?
- lololomg 11y agoMemtest86 writes patterns to memory and reads them back almost immediately. To do the test properly you need to write a known pattern to memory, wait 24 hours, and THEN read it all back and check for flipped bits. If you do not have ECC in your computer, yes you should see some flips.