Testing RAM

[Jeremy Turner]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:40:40AM -0500, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Several of you have mentioned finding bad RAM with memtest86 lately.
> How long to you usually let it run?

I have seen some RAM pass 5-7 times before failing, so I usually let it
run that long, maybe even 10 passes to be safe.  And as mentioned, the
amount of time for each pass will vary with the processor and amount of
RAM.

Jeremy