[geeks] memtest86 question (are correctable ECC errors, errors?)

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:29:41 -0400
Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:

> I have been running memtest86 against a 16GB RAM , dual Opteron 248  
> CPU system for almost 5 hours.
> 
> During that time, there have been no errors, but, there have been 215  
> ECC errors, all of which were corrected.
> 
> Can someone who knows more than me about memory architecture explain  
> whether that means the RAM is bad or is it OK?

This is not normal.

Either the RAM is bad, or something else is wrong.

Really, you should never see ECC errors.  ECC is there for when things go
wrong.

During normal operation it just should not happen.


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