Hello, On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 7:46 PM Chris Murphy wrote: [..] > We do have memtester in the repository, which is a user space memory > tester. But I can't really assess whether it's better or worse than > one that runs in the pre-boot environment. On the one hand, less > memory is being tested (possibly quite a bit less) with a user space > tester. But on the other hand, better memory testers find bad RAM > faster. They aren't all equally effective at this. At least over in > #btrfs land, we see evidence of bad RAM sourced corruption, and > occasionally it's tedious to find it (neither memtest86 or memtest86+ > finding it, but doing a bunch of compiles of the kernel with gcc does > find it - almost like gcc is a good memory tester, however unintended, > much like btrfs and probably also zfs). [..]
I can confirm, in the last instances I had to deal with memory hardware corruption and I tried memtest86+, it didn't find any memory errors. Whereas, on the same hosts, memtester quickly found them. Best regards Georg _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
