[Discuss] Server won't boot kernel. initramfs problem?

[John Abreau]

My understanding is that ECC RAM merely makes a server crash on a memory
error, not detect the error and alert the sysadmin. Is that not the case?

And no, I'm not looking to implement this in the near future, I just prefer
automating routine sysadmin chores and relying on Nagios for routine system
health monitoring, and memtest86 is a useful tool that I'm unable to
automate.

It's hard to justify taking down a production server to run memtest86 just
for the sake of running it, so running it manually on a production server
will never be routine.



On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:13:21 -0500
> John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I wonder if it could be automated? Perhaps a weekly or monthly cron
> > job that temporarily sets grub to default to the memtest config, then
> > reboots, runs the memtest and logs the results, and finally sets grub
> > back to its previous config?
>
> If you are seriously considering this then you should be using ECC RAM.
>
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