Re: Thinkpad 560X w/ 160MB memory (2.4.24 kernel): many segfaults

[Willy Tarreau]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:42:40PM +0000, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> > burnBX (from cpuburn) could detect the problem within 8 seconds.
> > [or burnMMX]
> 
> Thanks for these suggestions.  I ran each for several minutes and got
> no errors.  So I'm still puzzled, but maybe it is a subtle memory
> incompatability that neither program detects (yet somehow Linux works
> the machine so hard and uncovers it?).

Sorry, but IIRC both burnBX and burnMMX don't test a large portion of RAM,
but only a small amount (4 MB ?) by default. So it's fairly possible that
without options, it runs on your on-board RAM only. I believe you had to
specify it a letter as a first and only parameter. I used 'P' which meant
64 MB. I don't remember if you have higher sizes, but at least you can
start several of them in parallel to lock more memory.

Willy

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