Re: AMD 64 Stability on Asus A8v Deluxe

[Matthias Wenthe <wenthe@ims.de>]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Erik Mouw wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:32:33PM -0700, Juan Ortega wrote:
> > Why dont you simply use memtest86?
>
> Because memtest86 doesn't catch all memory errors, while a kernel
> compile stresses the system in ways memtest86 doesn't. Some memory
> errors only happen when there is IO going on at the same time, which is
> exactly what a kernel compile does. For more information, see the sig11
> FAQ at http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ .
Thanks very much for the clarification Erik! That's exactly what I wanted to 
answer and btw. the sig11 FAQ ist of course the source for the ramtest shell 
script I use.

Regards

Matthias Wenthe