From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 6 5:59:48 2000 From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 05:59:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B57437B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 05:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA16821; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:59:43 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eB6Dxhu19874; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:59:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:59:42 -0500 (EST) To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: part numbers for 2100 5/300 processor modules? In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7A8B@l04.research.kpn.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7A8B@l04.research.kpn.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14894.17923.887832.451112@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Koster, K.J. writes: > > > > Once we get the machine booting, it would be interesting to play with > > it with that bad card in place. > > > Interesting. This kind of discussion crops up in the yearly "help my machine > is sig 11-ing everything"--threads on freebsd-hackers/questions. The outcome > is rather different over there, usually along the lines of "Just replace the > RAM and don't even think of bloating the kernel with bad memory detectors". > > Is the Alpha memory management so much better that we can reliably detect > the bulk of the memory errors, or is it that Alpha RAM isn't as cheap as the > sand it was molten from and thus more precious? Yes. To both, I think. I'll have to read more about it to verify.. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message