Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:18:34 -0600 (CST) | Subject | Suggestion for Pentium Error Stress Testing | From | Billy Harvey <> |
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Perhaps Richard or someone could whip up a program similar to the bovine effort, that linux folks could extract a keyspace from and run a sequence of bits through their system, to see if it will crash. The code would have to write a (flushed and synced) log before and after each execution effort so that we would have a trace to see which (if any, but I'm sure there are probably more) bit patterns cause problems, and on which processors.
If we spread this out over several thousand CPUs for a few weeks, we could check a lot of codespace. Obviously, we would need to run the program when we wouldn't mind a crash - i.e. in the wee wee hours of the morning for most of us.
I'd rather find problems via such a trusted method than read about it from CERT.
Comments?
Billy Harvey
J.P. Racine writes: > Wouldn't it have been the responsable thing for Intel to have done what > you are doing in the first place? :) > > Richard B. Johnson wrote: ... > > I also > > have a 64-bit random-number generator running on another machine > > to check for other problems on the Pentium. ...
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