Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: Possible dcache BUG | Date | Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:19:44 -0400 |
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On Thursday 05 August 2004 04:33, Denis Vlasenko wrote: >> Well, it has, in the past week, ran memtest86-3a for 12 full >> passes over the whole gig of ram with no errors. This was the >> longest test, I gave it a 2 hour, 5 pass test before I ever booted >> linux the first time on this motherboard over 2 weeks ago now, a >> new Biostar M7NCD-Pro, with an nforce2(3?) chipset. I did that >> because I was comeing from an older board whose memory had been >> overstressed by a failing video card and I wanted to make sure >> this new memory, nearly $210 worth of it, was good. I gave it >> another, probably 4 hour test after the first couple of crashes, >> which it also passed. And it got > >You may use cpuburn to test RAM/CPU too.
Setiathome should be doing a pretty good job of that, the cpu is at 100% 99.99% of the time. Only going down for a few seconds as its managing script switches the link to a new data packet directory when its done with the current one. I keep 101 packets cached here. :)
>Although I have a memory which, when clocked a bit too high, >pass both memtest86 and cpuburn for extended periods of time, >yet large compile runs die with sig11 sometimes. Using a tiny >bit less aggressive clocking helped. :)
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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