On 03/11/10 22:03, Akemi Yagi wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > I agree. Usually, when systems crash due to possibly memory related errors I let them run testing for 24 hours, or if they have lots of memory possibly longer (48 hours) to allow all memory to be fully tested. :-) -- Jake