On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Anca Emanuel wrote: > Dumb question: it is possible to hot remove the (bad) memory ? And add > an good one ? Under certain conditions this is possible. If the bad memory was modified then you have a condition that requires termination of all processes that are using the memory. If its the kernel then you need to reboot. If the memory contains a page from disk then the memory can be moved elsewhere. If you can clean up a whole range like that then its possible to replace the memory. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>