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Date:      Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:41:37 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c
Message-ID:  <200504181441.37979.peter@wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <200504181451.00926.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050418043305.GA35779@FreeBSD.org> <200504181451.00926.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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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 :-)
-- 
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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