I'll stand by my claim that my test will trounce a gcc compile test any day
of the week for finding bad RAM %^) The compile test may touch a lot of
RAM, may have a large working set, and may actually compute things fairly
quickly, but gcc can't compile, k for k, as fast as gzip can decompress the
kernel. Then add in the significantly larger amount of data you are running
through RAM in a short period of time via DMA from the disk sub-system and
the compile test won't be able to match the stress the test I listed gives
your machine. I can say this much from experience. Find a machine that
fails my test on one out of every four passes, and I'll show you a machine
that will compile kernels all day long without a hiccup (x86 arch anyway).
--Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net> Opinions expressed are my own, but they should be everybody's.
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