[Gllug] memtest86 running time

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 01:58:13PM +0100, Dan Kolb wrote:
> Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> 
> >If it does carry on indefinately, how long is "long enough"
> >to be reasonably confident?
> 
> I'm not sure how long it carries on, but I have (a couple of years back) 
> had it running for more than 2 days, without any sign of stopping.
> 
> 'Long Enough' can be anywhere between half an hour and a couple of hours 
> - that should catch most memory errors, unless they're *really* obscure.

2 days! That's careful :)

I suspected I'd be waiting for the rest of my life for it
to stop.  I've settled for 1 hour per 64MB.

Cheers,

Ben
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