Michael Will wrote: > We have found that linpack is by far the better memory tester than > Memtest86+.
So now we have a report of a second method that finds more memory problems than memtest86+. Can somebody please shed some light on why these two programs find defects in memory that memtest86+ doesn't? Or is it that they find defects in other parts of the hardware, external to the actual RAM, which manifest as memory errors? The key distinction being that swapping memory sticks will cure the former but not the latter. In any case I'd like to know what it is about linpack/memtester which lets them find memory faults that memtest86+ doesn't. Presumably whatever this magic sauce is could be added to memtest86+, once again resulting in a tiny memory tester which can run without the rest of linux. That is a desirable goal, since the rest of linux sits on a largish chunk of memory which cannot be tested with either linpack or memtester, and which is critical to system stability. Regards, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
