On 14.03.21 18:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/14/21 5:55 PM, Mike Tremaine wrote:Let’s assume it’s not hardware, Dennis has posted the tests and states the machine ran Sol10 fine.The fact that Solaris runs fine can be an indicator the hardware is okay, but it's not a proper verification that it's actually the case. For example, if one of the memory modules is bad, it could happen that the error shows on Linux but not on Solaris because both allocate different memory regions right after the machine has started.
Agreed, but...
So, if, for example, you want to verify that the memory is okay, you should run a memtest program.
...the built-in (memory) diagnostics of Sun machines are pretty thorough. This is not a PC. :-) Cheers, Frank