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 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
