From: Francesco Talamona <francesco.talamona@know.eu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:54:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108220654.40577.francesco.talamona@know.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j2r76u$rh9$1@dough.gmane.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-22 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-21 10:27 [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes Mick
2011-08-21 11:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Francesco Talamona
2011-08-21 11:42 ` Mick
2011-08-21 11:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan
2011-08-21 12:37 ` Mick
2011-08-21 15:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-21 15:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-08-21 15:33 ` Mark Knecht
2011-08-21 15:43 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-21 16:08 ` Mark Knecht
2011-08-21 16:26 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-21 17:27 ` Mark Knecht
2011-08-21 17:28 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-08-22 4:54 ` Francesco Talamona [this message]
2011-08-21 12:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-08-21 15:30 ` meino.cramer
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