On Sunday 21 August 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > I wish yours it's not a RAM > > > > issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting > > any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports > > error, but when it doesn't you can't be sure if RAM modules are in > > good health. > > CPU load doesn't affect RAM errors. CPU load affects CPU errors. If > you only get RAM errors during heavy load, the RAM is just fine, but > your CPU has a fault.
I see your point: to better explain my statement I point you to http://people.redhat.com/~dledford/memtest.shtml The idea is that a "synthetic" test isn't guaranteed to repeat real life conditions, so its results has to be interpreted rather than taken acritically. Cheers Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.3-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 19 07:16:13 CEST 2011 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
