> Sounds great for a third world scenario, but honestly, patch or no patch,
> this sends shivers down my spine. Unless of course you'll be using this on
> a computer on which you won't mind a crash or system halt any time. I've
> had experiences with bad RAM (I didn't know), and I wouldn't like to go
> through them again. (Of course I wasn't using Linux yet, if I was, I'd
> have checked my RAM with memtest first). I remember being radioed from
> school, our file server (a crummy NT workstation machine that eventually
> became my first Linux box) went down. The morning before that I plugged in
> additional RAM (that was working), and boot up went okay. Ugh. System
> froze up and ... oh well. At least I got a free coke and a free day from
> school. Nyehehehe.
>
Try to do some search on badRAM and Linux. As we know, when the RAM is
damaged, it's not the entire RAM that has problem, only some memory pages
are having problem.
So what the program does is to scan your memory bit by bit and check which
has problem so they will be avoided by the OS.
I think it's pretty successful because there are lots of sites dedicated to
it. This don't exist on Windows NT, only on Linux.
Check it out, we don't need to throw out bad RAMs. :)
regards/
Jerome Tan
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