Re: [BLUG] New OS

While we are at this, you might be interested in taking a look at this --

http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/

I have never tried this though -- fortunately my RAM chips have not given up on me after I discovered this.

 -- Abhishek

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Shei, Shing-Shong <shei@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

I am afraid that this is not a correct assumption.  Different OSes has
different way of allocating/using memory.  Probably it's just lucky that
Ubuntu had not touched the bad memory block.  --SS

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Shei, Shing-Shong <shei@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>

>> I am curious -- how did you that " kernel just noticed the potholes and
>> steered around them"?  --SS
>>
>

> I simply mean that with that particular stick of damaged memory I ran
> Ubuntu perfectly fine without rebooting for several weeks, and with
> the same damaged stick Windows XP couldn't even finish installing (or
> boot when I got it installed using other memory).

>
> Since it relates to how memory is used, I only assumed that it was the
> kernels that handled the errors with aplomb or not.
>

> Simón

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