Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: marching through all physical memory in software | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:00:30 +0100 |
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"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> writes:
> Someone is asking me about the feasability of "scrubbing" system > memory by accessing each page and handling the ECC faults.
I would expect any ECC RAM capable memory controller designed in the last 10-15 years to be able to do this on its own without software intervention. Is that not true? It is certainly on x86 (although you sometimes have to change BIOS options)
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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