On Thu, 6 May 2010, Boris Kochergin wrote:
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.
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so really i'd need to collect two or more crash dumps, and if they point
to different addresses then i can reasonably say the RAM is bad?
thanks...
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