On 2013-03-20, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson <skyc...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> That's by no means conclusive, however, I've also run a complete pass of
>> memcheck for over an hour without any issues reported.
>
> FWIW.  I've had flakey memory that ran memcheck fine for several hours
> and multiple passes -- but if I let it run long enough, it would fail.
> I wouldn't be confident unless memtest ran for at least 12 hours (24
> would be even better).

I should probably be more clear: I was talking about memtest86+ when I
wrote "memcheck".

> I'd also keep an eye on CPU core temperature. 
>
> A failing hard-drive can also cause some pretty strange behavior.  If
> you're drives are smart (AFAICT, all recent ones are), ask them how
> they're feeling with 'smartclt' or something like that.

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