[olug] Intriguing random hangs! Followup

[kaygee]

Blaine,
No offense, but I can tell you're not a broke med-school student eating
Ramen for lunch everyday. :) Ha.

Seriously though, I might indeed try to get the bad RAM replaced although
the thought of shipping it back to Ohio doesn't appeal to me.  Plus, I'm
kind of interested in seeing if I can get the patch to work. Thanks.

Keith
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Blaine Kahle wrote:

> IMHO, memory is too bloody cheap right now to worry about this. Buy
> new RAM, replace old stuff that's under warranty (most is lifetime nowadays),
> or plan ahead for situations like this and go the ECC route, if you're
> paranoid like my boss (duck and cover) :P
> 
> -brk
> 
> >You'll need a detailed description of what EXACT areas are bad on the 
> >chip, memtest86 can supposedly do this.  Then, areas of memory to avoid 
> >are passed to the kernel via an "append=" in your lilo.conf.
> >
> >Im interested to see this feature put in the main kernel tree.
> >
> >Jason
> >
> >kaygee wrote:
> >
> >>Thanks to everyone who made suggestions regarding my last post.  I went to
> >>BestBuy today and picked up some memory.  I'm testing it now but my
> >>preliminary findings are that the other stick of memory was indeed to
> >>blame.
> >>Anyway, I'm looking to still use that stick by adding the BadRAM patch to
> >>a new kernel.  Does anyone have any experience with this patch and if so
> >>do you have any suggestions for me?  Thanks again.
> >>Keith
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