On Friday 14 November 2008, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages': >On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net> was heard to say: >> On Friday 14 November 2008, "Jeff Soules" <soules@gmail.com> wrote >> about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and >> corrupted .DEB packages': >> >Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory testing suite that should work with >> >anything in the i386-amd64 family. >> >> Yeah, but it's not actually that good at testing memory. > > Do you have a reference for that? Nope. I also can't find one after a bit of googling. I seem to remember that there were two or 3 people on gentoo-user that were able to find memory errors with a perl script that memtest86 couldn't find. Perhaps those were actually CPU errors with similar symptoms. I could be remembering it wrong. I'll cease deriding memtest86 until I see problems again and document them properly. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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