> Kastus Shchuka wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> >
> > > Kastus Shchuka wrote:
> > > > Just a short question to all people who exrerienced corruption: What kind
> > > > of RAM do you use? Is it ECC/parity or no? This looks like the clue to the
> > > > problem.
> > >
> > >
> > > NO! At least some of them have verified that the problems DO NOT originate
> > > in "bad RAM".
> >
> > One can't say that memory contains no errors unless RAM has parity/ECC.
> >
> > Non-parity SIMMs/DIMMs are cheaper but no chance to be confident it works
> > without errors. Even tests can't prove it.
>
> There are tests that prove that the RAM works.
>
> The ones I don't trust are the memory tests.
...like memtest, CheckIt
>
> The one that I do trust is "compiling the kernel 100 times in a
> row". If that completes without any incidents 100 times in a row, the
> RAM is good.
Completely agree.
>
> Read
> http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11/
Thanks for the pointer.
>
> Roger.
>
>
>
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