Re: Mersenne: mprime crashes but Prime95 doesn't

2002-06-25 Thread Steve Elias 


hello Pierre,

you might want to try a comprehensive memory hammer test,
such as  walking 1s  0s  .

/eli

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Mersenne: mprime crashes but Prime95 doesn't

2002-06-24 Thread Pierre Abbat 

I got a new laptop a few weeks ago. I promptly loaded Linux on it and ran 
into hardware problems. I copied statically linked mprime to it and ran it; 
it crashed in a few minutes. I sent it back.

The technician knows nothing about Linux. He loaded Windows and ran some 
test, which found nothing. I told him about mprime, so he loaded Prime95 on 
it and ran it for at least a day with no errors.

The processor is an Athlon. The kernel I ran on it was 2.4.17 from a 
Sourcemage install. Is there any problem with that version?

phma
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