David Mathog wrote:
[...]
3. The memory testers don't exercise anything but the memory. This puts
a pretty constant but minimal load on the power supply. Pounding away
at the same time on the disks (and to a lesser extent the NIC) puts a
large and varying load on the power supply, which most likely results in
additional noise on all voltages, which may be enough to trigger memory
failures in marginal devices.
[...]
Hello, David.
I agree - I run the user-mode "memtester" stress test, and hammer the
hard disks at the same time ;-)
BTW "memtest", as you said, is a stand-alone program but it is quite
different to "memtester", which is a normal application program that
runs in user mode: The "memtester" program locks memory before testing
it, up to a maximum of about half the installed memory in the system.
http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/
Bye,
Tony.
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