On Jan 18, 2008 10:59 AM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:03:06AM -0800, Karl Cunningham wrote: > > > >> Typical users will put in 1GB of RAM and if they get windows xp to run > >> (out of the box using only first 150MB of RAM) they declare it a > >> success. No tests of memory (other than POST), temperature stress, CPU > >> loading, etc. So far they haven't tested very much of the > >> functionality of the board. Failures after this are usually chocked up > >> to user error or software bugs. Amazing what people will put up with, > >> "Y'know I never could get that to work right." > >> > >> I recommend at least memtest to anyone who buys a cheap MB or > >> computer. A lot of them don't pass the first time. > > > > I've only have one memory failure that showed up in memtest, and it was > a > > real RAM failure. > > > > Most of my other memory problems showed up in the "standard linux memory > > test", e.g., compiling a kernel. If gcc segfaults, you've got memory > > problems. > > > > Another common memory test is to create a reiserfs partition and see how > > badly it corrupts itself. > > Hey! that makes me want to put reiserfs everywhere -- then I get > continuous testing. ( :-) ;-) :-) ) > Reiser is great, provided you don't have problems with it. It left me high and dry a couple of times on multi-terrabyte systems. Even though the reiserfs tools said things were good, it obviously wasn't. I ended up switching back to ext3 with the same exact system, no issues at all with the hardware. -- mark > Regards, > ...jim > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- Mark Schoonover, CMDBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/markschoonover http://marksitblog.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
