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Date:      Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:02:02 +0000
From:      Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com>
To:        James Snow <snow@teardrop.org>
Cc:        Dr Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Checksum errors across ZFS array
Message-ID:  <81B54AB0-1528-4A31-8090-2A8AB4A051C3@alogis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120720225522.GB18627@teardrop.org>
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Am 21.07.2012 um 00:57 schrieb "James Snow" <snow@teardrop.org>:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 03:46:21PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>>
>> You probably know this already, but just in case ... Software memory
>> tests cannot tell you conclusively that memory is good, only that it's
>> bad.
>
> I may have known that in a past life but certainly wasn't thinking about
> it now.
>
>> To make sure it's good you need a hardware tester.
>
> Is there one you'd recommend?

I usually found "make buildworld" to be pretty good at finding faulty memor=
y (within a few minutes) whilst memtest was running for hours without findi=
ng anything.

Holger


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