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* [gentoo-user] memtest
@ 2010-09-17  3:21 meino.cramer
  2010-09-17 14:23 ` Paul Hartman
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From: meino.cramer @ 2010-09-17  3:21 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Gentoo



Hi,

 are there any memtest for x86 platforms out there, which
 could handle a hexa-core CPU?

 Thank you very much in advance for any help!
 Best regards,
 mcc






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* Re: [gentoo-user] memtest
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@ 2010-09-17 14:22 ` David W Noon
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From: David W Noon @ 2010-09-17 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:30:02 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote about
[gentoo-user] memtest:

> are there any memtest for x86 platforms out there, which
> could handle a hexa-core CPU?

memtest uses only 1 CPU, so it doesn't care how many more are
installed.  You could have 4096 CPUs, like the largest IBM mainframes,
and memtest will still use only 1 of them.

Note that all memory is accessible from all CPUs, even on a NUMA
system.  This is why memtest does not need to use multiple CPUs.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] memtest
  2010-09-17  3:21 meino.cramer
@ 2010-09-17 14:23 ` Paul Hartman
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From: Paul Hartman @ 2010-09-17 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:21 PM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>  are there any memtest for x86 platforms out there, which
>  could handle a hexa-core CPU?

memtest86+

http://www.memtest.org/



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