Am Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:46:45 +0000 schrieb Eric Fernandez: > Udo Rader wrote: > >>hi all, >> >>after a horrendous weekend dealing with faulty memory modules I think it >>would be very nice to have the badram kernel patch officially >>included in the mdk kernel: >> >>http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ >> >>The patch prevents the kernel from accessing identified bad memory regions >>(probably found by memtest86) and thus allows to further use those bad memory >>modules instead of littering them. >> >>I have a patch ready for the current 2.4.21-6 kernel, so if anybody is >>interested, I'll post it here. >> >>happy hacking >> >>udo >> >> >> > I think it is a very good idea, especially since it does not affect > performance. Does it prevent kernel crashing if the memory is defective > too ?
well, that's one of the targets of this project. This way at least our server survived the weekend. udo
