Re: marching through all physical memory in software

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Jan 26 2009 - 11:00:13 EST


On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:38:13 -0600
"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Someone is asking me about the feasability of "scrubbing" system
> memory by accessing each page and handling the ECC faults.
>

Hi,

I would suggest that you look at the "edac" subsystem, which tries to
do exactly this....



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