Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (491 mails)

[Davide Ceresoli <ceresoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Tierney wrote:
> So there we go. You can have a faulty RAM stick and memtest86+ might not
> show up any problem. bonnie -s 2048 (for a 2GB machine) however caused the
> error to manifest.

The same happens to me (with Tyan 2882).
Not only bonnie, but even a small C program like that:
  while (1) { p = malloc(10*Mbyte); memset(p, 0, 10*MByte); }
crashes the machine, as soon as the system starts to swap.

What is the solution? BIOS update and/or memory update?

> Cheers,
> Mike

Thanks to everybody,
    Davide


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