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Date:      Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:55:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c
Message-ID:  <20050418175506.E67458@mail.chesapeake.net>
In-Reply-To: <200504181441.37979.peter@wemm.org>
References:  <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org> <200504181451.00926.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200504181441.37979.peter@wemm.org>

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On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Peter Wemm wrote:

> On Sunday 17 April 2005 10:21 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:03, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > > knows of specific physical addresses that have bit errors (such
> > > > as from a memtest run) so that one can blacklist the bad pages
> > > > while waiting for the new sticks of RAM to arrive.  The physical
> > > > addresses of any ignored pages are listed in the message buffer
> > > > as well.
> > >
> > > Should not this list get populated automatically?  :-)
> >
> > You could integrate Memtest86+ into the loader and do a run before
> > booting the kernel 8-)
>
> What a brilliant idea!   John ran memtest86 at usenix for something like
> 40 minutes to find this problem....  I guess this would encourage
> people to write non-crashing kernel code :-)

Didn't the bios report parity errors?

> --
> Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
>



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