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Does it need to be active? Have there been significant advancements in the realm of RAM testing?

• iforgotpassword 7y ago
  Well, testing for rowhammer would be one thing that comes to mind ;-) Also the change log explicitly mentioned support for individual CPU generations (and the last release was 2013) though I don't know how relevant that is or whether it's just cosmetics. Also phrases like "better timings detection" makes you wonder whether updates for newer types of memory are required.
• loeg 7y ago
  The open memtest86+ doesn't boot from EFI, which is a significant drawback.
  • iforgotpassword 7y ago
    Right, it took me a while to figure that out half a year ago. Didn't realize bios was set to efi only and memtest wouldn't boot from USB. I wonder if that would require a major rewrite or if it's mostly just writing new bootstrap code. Since it's 32 bit code with PAE it's doing funky things like relocating itself at runtime to access more than 4 GB of ram.