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Well, it seems that finally someone decided to take advantage of the ECC error injection capabilities of modern processors:
http://www.memtest86.com/features.htm
Of course, there's a catch. Several, actually:
http://www.memtest86.com/features.htm
Of course, there's a catch. Several, actually:
- They want you to fork over 40 bucks per simultaneous instance you plan on running.
- Those 40 bucks only get you a year's worth of updates (almost guaranteeing that you'll need to pay again when the next platform arrives)
- It's unbelievably bloated. That thing has a GUI. A fscking GUI. In a program that's meant to test memory. At best, that implies crazy shuffling of the whole program around physical RAM. At worst, it implies a larger portion than necessary of RAM that is not tested.
- They're one of those companies that pick up open-source stuff and proceed to close-source it.
- If you read the release notes, they say that the big feature, ECC error injection, is "untested" on Xeon E3 v1, v2, v3 and v4. And they don't explicitly mention support for this on Xeon E3 v5.