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A comment on Rowhammer-test – Test DRAM for bit flips caused by the rowhammer problem (2015).

Re:Rowhammer-test – Test DRAM for bit flips caused by the ro... by r721 on Sunday January 22, 2017 @07:38AM (#13454928)
Last versions of MemTest86 (>6.0) have Row hammer test too:

"Version 6.0.0 13/Feb/2015

New Features

New "Hammer Test" for detecting disturbance errors caused by charge leakage when repeatedly accessing addresses in the same memory bank but different rows in a short period of time."

http://www.memtest86.com/support/ver_history.htm

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Re:Rowhammer-test – Test DRAM for bit flips caused by the ro... by wolf550e on Sunday January 22, 2017 @12:33PM (#13456098)
Even more enhancement in newer versions:

"Version 7.0 20/July/2016

New Features Row Hammer Test (Test 13) now uses double-sided hammering and random data patterns in an attempt to expose more RAM modules susceptible to disturbance errors."

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