Subject: Re: memtestplus on amd64 (was: LFS and big files)
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/06/2007 11:34:05
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> Just for fun, run memtestplus, use 'c' to change the configuration,
> select 5 for Error Report Mode, and 2 for BadRAM patterns.  This tells
> memtest+ to generate patterns for a Linux kernel mod to do what we're
> talking about -- see http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/index.html

Yeah, it gives lots of badram= lines!  Most of them have the same page
address but there's a few other random locations reported, too.  So I
guess I gotta go to Fry's and pick up some new sticks.  :(