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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    18 days ago

    I’m curious: What’s motivating you to do that when the memmap param can do the same without patching?

    • Corbin@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      BadRAM specifiers can apply to stripes of memory corresponding to certain physical hardware failures. The memmap hack only allows for contiguous allocations. BadRAM’s intended for repurposing consumer-grade RAM that might normally be thrown out, not for reconfiguring motherboards that have strange layouts.