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SubjectRe: memtest86, built into kernel
On Apr 21,  9:49pm, Jason Duerstock wrote:
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> 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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