From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 21:01:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257B716A404; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:01:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Received: from postman.atlantis.dp.ua (postman.atlantis.dp.ua [193.108.47.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D4A449E6; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:01:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Received: from smtp.atlantis.dp.ua (smtp.atlantis.dp.ua [193.108.46.231]) by postman.atlantis.dp.ua (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5QL18dO006196; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:01:08 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:01:08 +0300 (EEST) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: <20060626140333.M38418@fledge.watson.org> Message-ID: <20060626235355.Q95667@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> References: <20060626100949.G24406@fledge.watson.org> <20060626081029.L1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060626140333.M38418@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:01:18 -0000 Hello! On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: > I think this is a useful activity, especially if you've already run extensive > memory testing on the box. If you haven't yet done that, I encourage you to > take a break from buildworld's and make sure the memory tests pass. I spent > several months on and off trying to track down a bug a few years ago, which > turned out to be a one bit error in memory on the box. It would appear and This is precisely the task which hardware ECC solves: to correct any single- bit memory error and to detect 2-bit and most of several-bit errors. I prefer ECC-capable hardware even for home PC; for server it's a must IMHO. Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE