memory errors

By: David Hess (davidwhess.delete@this.gmail.com), March 4, 2021 2:44 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
dmcq (dmcq.delete@this.fano.co.uk) on March 4, 2021 6:40 am wrote:
>
> The initialisation problem could have been easily solved by simply only initialising a page when
> it was allocated, or ovcerwriting it if it is set from disk. You'd still get some seconds spent
> on the job but the user wouldn't notice. I can't really believe they wouldn't think of that never
> mind that booting took a long time anyway so this would be no sort of great gain.

I have not noticed any delay on my workstation which has 64G.

The entire memory would have to be initialized before memory scrubbing could be used. Without scrubbing, memory could be initialized as written but this would return errors if uninitialized memory was accessed.

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