[plug] Memory problem

[Matt Kemner]

Hi Jim

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, quoth Jim Householder:

> I've been getting intermittent crashes recently, which I think are due
> to bad memory.  memtest showed a few locations intermittently failing.
> I swapped the 2 cards which, if I read the memtest output correctly,
> puts the failing locations at about 830MB (1GB installed).
>
> I really do not want to put more money into this machine.  Is it
> possible to tell linux to only use 800MB and ignore the rest?

Add "mem=800M" to your kernel parameter list (via grub or lilo)

Just beware that Linux allocates memory "from the top down" (or at least
it used to, years ago) so you may find it will try to use the faulty area
of RAM anyway because it uses the RAM between 224MB and 1024MB

Kind Regards,

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