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by 77pt77 3461 days ago
Best way to find memory problems is intensive multi-threaded video transcoding and intensive compiling (say installing gentoo).
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tdkl 3461 days ago
Or you know - running memtest86[1].

[1] http://www.memtest.org

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_joel 3461 days ago
Indeed, I'm also a fan of http://www.advancedclustering.com/products/software/breakin/ - use it for soak testing systems before giving them real load
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tdkl 3460 days ago
Wow, this looks awesome, will definitely check it out, thanks.
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