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

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Tue Sep 25 23:29:41 CDT 2007


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?

--Patrick



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