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FromDenis Vlasenko <>
SubjectRe: Possible dcache BUG
DateThu, 5 Aug 2004 11:33:44 +0300
> 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.

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. :)
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