Am 09.01.2014 09:16, schrieb Helmut Jarausch:

> You can use sys-apps/memtester without physical access to the machine.
> I had cases where memtester found errors which memtest86 didn't.
> One of these cases was a machine which probably had a cache coherence
> problem
> since the error showed up only when more than one process ran memtester.
> Replacing the CPU but not the memory fixed that problem.

Thanks for the pointer ... how to use it to test the whole RAM? Just
give it a value bigger than the available RAM or ... ? I just try it
with a slightly lower value for now and will re-read the manpage.


> Did you try www.sysresccd.org/ version 3.8.1? I'm not sure if it is
> based on
> glibc-2.17, yet.

No, didn't take a look yet. Started my download now.


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