How to test and safely keep using your RAM

How to test and safely keep using your janky RAM without compromising stability using memtest86+ and the memmap kernel param.

  • F04118F@feddit.nl
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    3 days ago

    This is amazing!! I had no idea this was possible!

    One point of feedback: not having worked with memmap before, it is not immediately obvious to me which hex means what (I am guessing RANGE@START? ). Would be nice to have a link to an explanation there.

    I am definitely sharing this, thank you for writing the blog!

    • kumi@feddit.onlineOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Thank you, I’m glad you like!

      not having worked with memmap before, it is not immediately obvious to me which hex means what (I am guessing RANGE@START? ). Would be nice to have a link to an explanation there.

      I just have the link to the kernel docs because I think they do a better job explaining it than I would 😁

      But yeah, basically. Except for this use-case you want RANGE$START not @. And you can use human sizes like 128M$RANGE.