From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 17:40:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7258B16A4FF for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:40:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C49D43D48 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:40:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZvRW-0002Ww-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:40:23 +0200 Received: from h209-17-131-79.gtconnect.net ([209.17.131.79]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:40:22 +0200 Received: from dmacpherson by h209-17-131-79.gtconnect.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:40:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derrick MacPherson Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <1086992110.17427.117.camel@Mandarin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 209.17.131.79 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8) Sender: news Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4-10 install, RAM parity errors that don't seem to happen inLinux. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:40:30 -0000 Derrick MacPherson mainframe.ca> writes: > > I am trying to move as much of our servers as I can to FreeBSD, and > there's a few boxes that they have here that the RAM is a about 2 mm > high and requires the case (1U machines) to press on the RAM when > closed. These machines run RH Linux for months without a problem, yet 3 > out of 4 I just pulled are giving RAM parity problems during FreeBSD > instalation. > > Does FreeBSD not allow/recover from those types of errors the same way > Linux does? Any solutions? > I posted this last week and hadn't seen a repsonse to it, is there someone that cares to take a poke at this? Just wondering if there's some form of memory checking that's going on that Linux would not have, or not have turned on by default. This is failry important as I would MUCH rther be running FreeBSD 4.10 than RedHat 9. Derrick