Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:49:48 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Laurentiu=20Pancescu?= <plaur_27@yahoo.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dealing with deffective RAM Message-ID: <20040815154948.28008.qmail@web50806.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello! Both Memtest86 and Memtest86+ find some failures in RAM (one finds 11 faults, the other 14 - most 32-bit, but some are only 8-bit wide). How can I deal with this in FreeBSD? Buying new RAM modules is probably the best choice, but I have no guarantee that the new modules will be perfectly ok, so it might be wasted money. Under Linux, I used the badram patch (http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/). Is there similar functionality in the FreeBSD kernel, or is there such a patch? I failed to find anything on Google, and boot(8) didn't help much, either. In case such a patch doesn't exist, do you have any ideas about how such a thing might be implemented? Eventually, could you point me to the right place in the kernel source? I use Linux since 1997, but I'm pretty much a FreeBSD newbie, so please be merciful... :) Best regards, Laurentiu P.S. I assume the physical pages (4k/4M) where the faults reside could just be not mapped at all in the virtual memory manager, so it should be doable, right? ___________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 100MB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de
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