On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 23:07 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 10/06/14 23:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:24 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 09/06/14 11:35, Bzzzz wrote: > >>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector > >>> <rich...@walnut.gen.nz> wrote: > >>> > >>>> I assume the RAM needs replacing - is it possible to figure > >>>> out which DIMM(s)? > >>> > >>> Install memtest86+ and boot on it, then leave at least 3 > >>> complete cycles to run. > >>> > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Have created a memtest86+ CD and will try it tomorrow evening > >> (need a scheduled time to take it down). > >> > >> Interestingly, there are no more errors logged for the last day > >> and a half ... > >> > >> Any guesses as to how long these 3 complete cycles will take? > >> It's a Sun Fire X2100 M2 (dual core opteron 1218, 2600MHz) with > >> 4G of RAM. I haven't run memtest for ages ... > > > > IIRC one complete standard test with my dual-core Athlon 2.1 GHz 4 > > GiB RAM takes more than 1 hour. I guess in 1 day it does around 8 > > complete tests, perhaps I run it just during the night in half of a > > day. I might be mistaken, but you should expect that you need to > > run it for several hours. > > Thanks. I'm not sure how long we can afford to leave the machine down; > hopefully the error will show up promptly. BTW - it will show an error > even if ECC corrects it, right?
No ECC here. I don't know. I used StartPage and searched for "memtest ECC". It seems to be, that memetst isn't good to test ECC. The current version seems to provide very limited hardware, seemingly Intel only. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1402399473.2813.44.camel@archlinux
