on 11-21-2008 10:10 AM nate spake the following:
Rob Townley wrote:
i have some several year old DL360's and ML370's and love em - especially hw raid, but i my local supplier hasn't had any for several months. Uptil a few months ago, password reset info on ebay was sent in the clear, so i have a very hard time trusting ebay. It would be great if something like LinuxBios / OpenBios could stresstest the machine and then disable any RAM addresses that proved flaky - whether ECC or not.
Wondering if you had heard of this project? I don't trust doing this sort of thing myself(paranoid) but..
http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/
I think that (or another similar project) can even take memtest86 output and use that as a map for blocking out the bad parts of the ram chips.
nate
I wouldn't trust that anymore. That is from a day when ram was priced like it was made out of gold or platinum. Bad ram over time will just make an ever expanding hole.