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Date:      Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:26:02 +0200
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c
Message-ID:  <20050419072602.GC1686@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050418175506.E67458@mail.chesapeake.net>
References:  <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org> <200504181451.00926.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200504181441.37979.peter@wemm.org> <20050418175506.E67458@mail.chesapeake.net>

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On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:55:29PM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 April 2005 10:21 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > > 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?

The BIOS parity error check is a joke, nothing more. I have to find
a broken memory module which actually triggers the BIOS check.

Joerg



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