I have run one full test and got no errors on the memory module. Is it worth keeping it running overnight, just to see if temperature changes will afect the test? Regards, Keith -- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5
It wouldn't harm you to do this? Jack -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Keith Roberts Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 9:48 PM To: centos Subject: [CentOS] Memtest86+ running time I have run one full test and got no errors on the memory module. Is it worth keeping it running overnight, just to see if temperature changes will afect the test? Regards, Keith -- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 11/3/2010 4:47 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:> I have run one full test and got no errors on the memory > module. Is it worth keeping it running overnight, just to > see if temperature changes will afect the test?Yes, I've seen a machine where it ran over a weekend before catching an error (which turned out to have corrupted the filesystem randomly too). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> wrote:> I have run one full test and got no errors on the memory > module. Is it worth keeping it running overnight, just to > see if temperature changes will afect the test?I had a system that started crashing randomly. I ran memtest overnight (about 10 hrs) but it did not report any errors. Next time I extended the run to 18 hrs or so and finally saw errors. Replacing the RAM solved the crash problem. So, I would recommend running memtest for one full day. Akemi