Bad memory

[cornel panceac]

2013/1/18 Justin M. Forbes <jmforbes at linuxtx.org>

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:18:40AM -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
> wrote:
> > Recently I discovered the motherboard that had been running omen.com
> > had an undetected bad memory chip.   This is a real confidence builder.
> >
> > Currently, running a definitive memory test requires hours of down time.
> > The user mode memory tester has serious limitations.
> >
> > I propose kernel support for a user mode program similar to memtest86
> > to allow such a program to request a hardware block of memory and
> > relocate whatever was in that block to another memory area.  This way
> > all of the memory can be checked in the background of a running system.
> >
>
> There are a lof of reasons that this isn't feasible on a running system.
> You just don't have access to all of the memory for a full check.
>
> Justin
>
> why not? is there something that can not be relocated in RAM?

on the other hand, wasn't there supposed to be a way to exclude a damaged
RAM area by passing some arguments to the kernel?
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