Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Rob Landley <> | | Subject | Re: Hardware testing [was Re: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5))] | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:05:19 -0400 |
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On Wednesday 11 July 2001 05:11, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Don't forget the L1/L2/L3 caches. I had once a mainboard with a faulty > L2 cache chip ('twas a K6-3 CPU, plus a FIC VA-503+ mainboard). No memory > or CPU test found the failure, yet kernel compliation was still crashing > after 6-8 hours. > > I modified the 'memtest.c' little proggy (not the big memtest86, just a > little utility that runs under Linux), to use patterns and test size > that tests the L1 and then L2, and the error has shown after ten seconds > of running the test.
I don't suppose you still have that lying around somewhere? :)
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