Atom Smasher wrote:
i suspect i've got bad RAM but memtest has run through several dozen
iterations without a problem. my (3 year old) laptop will run for a
few days or weeks and then crash/freeze/hang. i've enabled crash dumps
and i'm wondering if/how the dump might be able to (dis)prove that the
RAM is bad. any ideas?
thanks...
My experience with bad memory is that if it causes the machine to crash,
it won't always happen while the machine is running the same process (or
kernel thread)--so look for it crashing in a wide variety of places--and
upon inspection of the core dump, a pointer somewhere will be pointing
to garbage.
-Boris
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