Re: Pink pixel of death (reftest failures due to bad RAM)

2013-07-10 Thread L. David Baron
[ responding to the two months worth flood of email that just resulted from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=891906 ] On Thursday 2013-05-30 14:51 -0400, Armen Zambrano G. wrote: > We have found that sometimes we fail our reftest tests due to a > couple of pixels getting store in bad

Re: Pink pixel of death (reftest failures due to bad RAM)

2013-07-10 Thread Dave Townsend
On 5/30/2013 11:51 AM, Armen Zambrano G. wrote: Hi all, We have found that sometimes we fail our reftest tests due to a couple of pixels getting store in bad sectors on the RAM of our machines. We have also seen garbage collection crashes due to it. We have also recently discovered that memtest

Pink pixel of death (reftest failures due to bad RAM)

2013-07-10 Thread Armen Zambrano G.
Hi all, We have found that sometimes we fail our reftest tests due to a couple of pixels getting store in bad sectors on the RAM of our machines. We have also seen garbage collection crashes due to it. We have also recently discovered that memtest has done a better job at catching bad RAM comp