[CentOS] Re: memorial day kernel panic

Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> It would be great if there were a simple machine that you could plug
> a bunch of dimms of varying types into and it will perform high-speed
> tests on them continuously and flag ones that show an error.
>
> Then you could test all memory modules thoroughly before putting them
> into production servers (or any server for that matter).
>   

and DIMMs could pass that hardware tester and still fail in a production 
server due to differences in timing, capacitive/inductive signal load, 
etc.   especially sensitive are systems that use dual bank interleaving 
on a single memory bus.


actually, said machines DO exist, known as ATE (Automatic Test 
Equipment) but they cost $1M's