Re: replace memtest86+ with pcmemtest, needs maintainer

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Hello,

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 7:46 PM Chris Murphy wrote:
[..]
> We do have memtester in the repository, which is a user space memory
> tester. But I can't really assess whether it's better or worse than
> one that runs in the pre-boot environment. On the one hand, less
> memory is being tested (possibly quite a bit less) with a user space
> tester. But on the other hand, better memory testers find bad RAM
> faster. They aren't all equally effective at this. At least over in
> #btrfs land, we see evidence of bad RAM sourced corruption, and
> occasionally it's tedious to find it (neither memtest86 or memtest86+
> finding it, but doing a bunch of compiles of the kernel with gcc does
> find it - almost like gcc is a good memory tester, however unintended,
> much like btrfs and probably also zfs).
[..]

I can confirm, in the last instances I had to deal with memory hardware
corruption and I tried memtest86+, it didn't find any memory errors.
Whereas, on the same hosts, memtester quickly found them.

Best regards
Georg
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