From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 21:55:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D2D616A4CE; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:55:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.chesapeake.net (chesapeake.net [208.142.252.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB69543D53; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:55:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Received: from mail.chesapeake.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.chesapeake.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3ILtT1h063021; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:55:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Received: from localhost (jroberson@localhost)j3ILtTmE063016; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:55:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.chesapeake.net: jroberson owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:55:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Roberson To: Peter Wemm In-Reply-To: <200504181441.37979.peter@wemm.org> Message-ID: <20050418175506.E67458@mail.chesapeake.net> References: <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org> <200504181451.00926.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200504181441.37979.peter@wemm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Alexey Dokuchaev cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: John Baldwin cc: Daniel O'Connor cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:55:34 -0000 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 >