cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageq.c

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Apr 19 00:26:12 PDT 2005


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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