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

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[-] Corbin@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Well done. I recently revived the BadRAM kernel patch in order to do something similar; memtest86+ supports that functionality too, using , , , .

[-] kumi@feddit.online 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm curious: What's motivating you to do that when the memmap param can do the same without patching?

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