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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: New memory tester application potentially to replace memtest86+: PCMemTest
From:       Roberto Ragusa <mail () robertoragusa ! it>
Date:       2021-02-09 9:08:00
Message-ID: 25d03d5a-94bc-9248-87b6-0020bea018a0 () robertoragusa ! it
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On 2/8/21 10:46 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Being devils advocate, but should we have the memtest86 or similar by default? I \
> have certainly not used this feature in my 10+ yeas with Fedora.
I've not used GNOME in my 18 years with Fedora (plus 5 pre-Fedora).
Can we consider removing it?

Having memtest86 saved my life just a few months ago: random crashes, apparently \
caused by pressing in the middle of the keyboard.

It was able to demonstrate _live_ that the pressure was causing bit flips.
Press, errors, don't press, no more errors (including appearance/disappearance of \
vertical bands in the display, because of integrated chipset, VRAM=RAM).

Opened the laptop, reseated two DIMMs, TESTED AGAIN, TESTED AGAIN, shaken the laptop,
TESTED AGAIN, no problem anymore since then.

Regards.

-- 
    Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it
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