Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:07:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:07:42 -0400 Received: from 216-60-128-137.ati.utexas.edu ([216.60.128.137]:5834 "HELO tsunami.webofficenow.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:07:30 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley Reply-To: landley@webofficenow.com To: Vojtech Pavlik Subject: Re: Hardware testing [was Re: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5))] Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:05:19 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <01071011282504.00634@localhost.localdomain> <20010711111159.A2026@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20010711111159.A2026@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01071111051902.02490@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 11 July 2001 05:11, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Don't forget the L1/L2/L3 caches. I had once a mainboard with a faulty > L2 cache chip ('twas a K6-3 CPU, plus a FIC VA-503+ mainboard). No memory > or CPU test found the failure, yet kernel compliation was still crashing > after 6-8 hours. > > I modified the 'memtest.c' little proggy (not the big memtest86, just a > little utility that runs under Linux), to use patterns and test size > that tests the L1 and then L2, and the error has shown after ten seconds > of running the test. I don't suppose you still have that lying around somewhere? :) Rob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/