Re: New memory tester application potentially to replace memtest86+: PCMemTest

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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.

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   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it
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