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.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    32·
    1 month ago

    Disclaimer: This is supposed to act as a temporary measure and not a long-term solution. Faulty RAM will cause headaches down the road and can lead to irreparable data corruption.

    Important disclaimer at the end that I felt was worth repeating

    • IanTwenty@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      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!