Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 1999 08:20:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: NMI ?? |
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 08:47:00PM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: > > > Ahh, one of the things I miss from the bad old mainframe days -- coming to > > work in the morning and finding an email from the system monitoring > > daemon: > > > > My memory is going bad. Please call Field Service and ask them > > to replace board X. Failing pages marked offline. > > If you can migrate the pages. The current Linux MM doesn't support that. > > Ralf
Yes, but it could be done. Fairly easily in fact. Bad pages can be marked not present (extra code), or simply "owned" by kswapd (minimal code). As with VAX/VMS, a non-kernel task that encountered bad RAM can be killed, but the rest of the world survives.
Cheers, Dick Johnson ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.2.6 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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