Re: hardware errors
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On 10/06/14 23:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 21:24 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
>> On 09/06/14 11:35, Bzzzz wrote:
>>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:22:25 +1200 Richard Hector
>>> <richard@walnut.gen.nz> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I assume the RAM needs replacing - is it possible to figure
>>>> out which DIMM(s)?
>>>
>>> Install memtest86+ and boot on it, then leave at least 3
>>> complete cycles to run.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Have created a memtest86+ CD and will try it tomorrow evening
>> (need a scheduled time to take it down).
>>
>> Interestingly, there are no more errors logged for the last day
>> and a half ...
>>
>> Any guesses as to how long these 3 complete cycles will take?
>> It's a Sun Fire X2100 M2 (dual core opteron 1218, 2600MHz) with
>> 4G of RAM. I haven't run memtest for ages ...
>
> IIRC one complete standard test with my dual-core Athlon 2.1 GHz 4
> GiB RAM takes more than 1 hour. I guess in 1 day it does around 8
> complete tests, perhaps I run it just during the night in half of a
> day. I might be mistaken, but you should expect that you need to
> run it for several hours.
Thanks. I'm not sure how long we can afford to leave the machine down;
hopefully the error will show up promptly. BTW - it will show an error
even if ECC corrects it, right?
Richard
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