[Cialug] Crashing with errors in mcelog

[Aaron Porter]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley
<daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> The thing about memtest86, though, is that in my experience it just flat
> out doesn't work. I've let it run for days on machines that are known
> to have memory problems and it never finds them.

When running memtest on "server grade" hardware it's important to
disable ECC in the system BIOS. I've had vendors swear up and down
that there are no memory issues as they were testing the error
correction and not the memory itself.