Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Apr 1996 17:04:07 -0500 | From | David A Willmore <> | Subject | Re: memtest86, built into kernel |
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On Apr 21, 9:49pm, Jason Duerstock wrote: > > Last time I checked, I think that this is what ECC RAM was invented for. > Also, last time I checked, selling points had little correlation with > technically sound ideas.
Oww, ECC RAM is better. Now, the idle process doesn't have to *test* memory, but can now *scrub* it. Scrubbing is reading in data and writing it back out (if you feel like it). Reading it should be sufficient. When the null process performs a bad read, an exception handler gets called. The exception handler spits something out to the error log, corrects the erronious data (if possible), and exits.
Really nice process.
Cheers, David
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