BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Basics

2011-03-18 12:11:42
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Basics
From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:08:55 +0000
Les Mikesell wrote:

> I've seen memtest take 3 days to find bad RAM.  Sometimes only certain
> patterns/timing will fail.

The standard memtest86+ completes in about 90 minutes
on all the computers I have.
As far as I can see, it just starts again and runs the same tests
if you leave it running.

Also, when I have a bad memory module, as in this case,
I get hundreds of errors in Test 2, after a couple of minutes.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland


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