How to test and safely keep using your janky RAM without compromising stability using memtest86+ and the memmap kernel param.

  • kumi@feddit.onlineOPEnglish
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    9 days ago

    There is one part in the post mentioning how to “pad holes” in failing areas. Maybe I should expand it with some details around aligning reserved address space.

    Otherwise, corruption of the RAM itself does not usually spread like mold in bread or wear out and fail in similar ways to flash memory.