Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 07:48:48 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Atom Smasher <atom@smasher.org> Subject: Re: bad RAM? prove it with a crash dump? Message-ID: <201005060748.48256.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1005062053260.2629@smasher> References: <1005062053260.2629@smasher>
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On Thursday 06 May 2010 4:57:05 am Atom Smasher wrote: > i suspect i've got bad RAM but memtest has run through several dozen > iterations without a problem. my (3 year old) laptop will run for a few > days or weeks and then crash/freeze/hang. i've enabled crash dumps and i'm > wondering if/how the dump might be able to (dis)prove that the RAM is bad. > any ideas? If you can find a bad pointer that has a single-bit error that can certainly point to bad memory. -- John Baldwin
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