Re: marching through all physical memory in software

Andi Kleen
2009-02-06T09:01:26Z

"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com> writes:

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

I would expect any ECC RAM capable memory controller designed
in the last 10-15 years to be able to do this on its own without
software intervention. Is that not true? It is certainly
on x86 (although you sometimes have to change BIOS options)

-Andi

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