In this follow up post on the original Hold on to Your Hardware write-up we’re going to have a look at how to deal with faulty RAM on Linux, which is one of the major causes for system instability, crashes and data corruption on consumer hardware.
In this follow up post on the original Hold on to Your Hardware write-up we’re going to have a look at how to deal with faulty RAM on Linux, which is one of the major causes for system instability, crashes and data corruption on consumer hardware.
For example filesystems like btrfs can be very sensitive to errors in ram due to all the checksumming. On the positive side you’ll know about it fast!