I'm not sure how big the risks are, as we know, when an HD has a bad
cluster, it tends to grow after some time, I do doubt if the same thing
happens with memory, does the bad memory pages grow after sometime? Who
knows? Usually we replace the memory when there's a single bit that's not
working properly.
regards/
Jerome Tan
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From: "Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] bad RAM
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Jerome Tan wrote:
> ..
> > Has anyone tried using bad RAMs on Linux system and use the patch of the
> > kernel that avoid bad addresses? I'm thinking of reusing old defective
> > RAMs...
>
> Maybe for a test box.. but I wouldn't use it on a production system. And
> by definition, my desktop is a "production" system -- it's just as
> upsetting to lose my latest work as for clients to lose theirs.
>
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