Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 May 1999 14:39:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Michael B. Trausch" <> | Subject | Re: Oops assist... |
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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Keith Owens wrote: KO> KO>On Thu, 6 May 1999 06:04:12 -0400 (EDT), KO>"Michael B. Trausch" <mtrausch@wcnet.org> wrote: KO>>OTOH, the kernel should be restarted... My Linux oops'd once when I put KO>>buggy RAM in it, and it instantly rebooted. KO> KO>That is hitting a special case, a triple page fault. The buggy RAM KO>caused a fault, the error handler took another fault, recovering from KO>that failed again - instant reboot from hardware. In a lot of cases,
Wow. Ya learn something new every day.
I need to get out of high school and into a good CS college. =)
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