Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Better testing of hardware (was: Defective Read Hat) | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 22 Nov 2000 00:13:09 -0700 |
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"Stephen Gutknecht (linux-kernel)" <linux-kernel@i405.com> writes:
> A Linux Kernel compile test does a really good job of testing the hard disk, > RAM, and CPU... as it executes all types of instructions and the final > output depends on all prior steps completing correctly. On a really fast > system (> 900Mhz) might make sense to run it twice, once to "warm up" the > CPU and other components. Most "benchmarks" just test speed, not the actual > stability or data integrity (they write results to a device but don't check > for data corruption, or they test only one device at a time, not all at > once).
Also note that a Linux Kernel compile stresses memory because of the very pointer loaded data structures of gcc. This means that memory corruption is most likely to flip a bit in a pointer, and cause a bad pointer.
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