Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:55:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c Message-ID: <20050418175506.E67458@mail.chesapeake.net> In-Reply-To: <200504181441.37979.peter@wemm.org> References: <200504152145.j3FLj2Oi004736@repoman.freebsd.org> <200504181451.00926.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200504181441.37979.peter@wemm.org>
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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 >
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