memtest failure on x86_64

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Sat Apr 5 17:38:26 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:40:05PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
> 
> Especially, can anyone tell me for sure that the results from the F9 
> x86_64 memtest are reliable?

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437701
and in particular comment #11 there.

> I seem to have conflicting indicators at this point.

Retest with new builds of memtest v2.01.  I was told that
the current version of memtest does detect problems which were
"invisible" to v1.70 (the one present on F8 installation images).
You need non-broken binaries, of course.

    Michal




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