Re: marching through all physical memory in software

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-02-07T03:03:58Z

On Fri, 06 Feb 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "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)

Is that true for the 82875, and other common desktop chipsets that DO
support ECC ram?

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Henrique Holschuh