Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 23:32:16 +1200 (NZST) From: Atom Smasher <atom@smasher.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bad RAM? prove it with a crash dump? Message-ID: <1005062327340.2629@smasher> In-Reply-To: <4BE2A3A1.5030805@acm.poly.edu> References: <1005062053260.2629@smasher> <4BE2A3A1.5030805@acm.poly.edu>
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On Thu, 6 May 2010, Boris Kochergin wrote:
> My experience with bad memory is that if it causes the machine to crash,
> it won't always happen while the machine is running the same process (or
> kernel thread)--so look for it crashing in a wide variety of places--and
> upon inspection of the core dump, a pointer somewhere will be pointing
> to garbage.
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so really i'd need to collect two or more crash dumps, and if they point
to different addresses then i can reasonably say the RAM is bad?
thanks...
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