> > - do you have or know of a good exerciser for testing ECC's? yes, I > know about memtest86, but I'm more curious about a load that could be > run under > linux. my thinking is that ecc's are triggered by bad reads, so something > which allocates all memory and then continually reads it would be best.
stress http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/stress.html memtester http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/ > - does "numactl --hardware" work correctly for you? I see something like: The numbers look vaguely sane for me: numactl 0.9.11-2 # numactl --hardware available: 2 nodes (0-1) node 0 cpus: 0 1 node 0 size: 4095 MB node 0 free: 1035 MB node 1 cpus: 2 3 node 1 size: 4096 MB node 1 free: 39 MB node distances: node 0 1 0: 10 20 1: 20 10 dmidecode can give you information on your dimms too. <snip> Handle 0x0019, DMI type 17, 21 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0017 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 2048 MB Form Factor: DIMM Set: 1 Locator: DIMM2 Bank Locator: Slot 2 Type: DDR Type Detail: Synchronous <snip> Cheers, Guy -- Dr. Guy Coates, Informatics System Group The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 834244 x 6925 Fax: +44 (0)1223 496802 -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
