bad RAM? prove it with a crash dump?

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On Thu, 6 May 2010, Boris Kochergin wrote:

> My experience with bad memory is that if it causes the machine to crash, 
> it won't always happen while the machine is running the same process (or 
> kernel thread)--so look for it crashing in a wide variety of places--and 
> upon inspection of the core dump, a pointer somewhere will be pointing 
> to garbage.
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so really i'd need to collect two or more crash dumps, and if they point 
to different addresses then i can reasonably say the RAM is bad?

thanks...


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