Re: Oops with 2.4.23

Chris Frey
2003-12-22T17:06:22Z

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:17:00PM -0800, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:35:24AM +0100, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> > you did run memtest for a minimum dozen hours? sometimes it takes that
> > long to find errors...
>
> On one machine (with a bad power supply, as it turned out) it took
> memtest86 almost 18 hours to report an error. So 12 hours isn't enough
> either.
>
> (On a related note, one machine that I tested with mprime's Torture Test
> <http://www.mersenne.org/> took I think close to 43 hours to show a
> failure. In that case I don't know if the failure was the CPU or the
> motherboard, because in the end both failed on that system.)

At what point do people start suspecting the kernel?

I mean, I would hope the linux kernel is not so badly written as to stress
the machine 24/7. So after 12 hours of running memtest86 with clean
results, does that not begin to point to a software error rather than
hardware?

- Chris