linux-2.6.0-test2-mm2 with BadRAM patch
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--- Harold Wheaton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Steven. My name is Harold
and I happened to get your recent
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BadRAM patch running on the linux-2.6.0-test2-mm2 kernel.
I just upgraded to 2.6 today, and since I do have a minor memory problem, I needed to get BadRAM going. Fortunately I found your post with the compressed patch (which that one is indeed not corrupt) and got it in there without any difficulty. It's coming up with the announcement about "4k BadRAM".
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So far the kernel is rock solid and I've tested games and multimedia, but I'm not really sure if I'm a great test case. I have 1 gig of RAM with one intermittently bad bit at around the 250 meg spot, making it tough to gauge the patch's effectiveness. Also, I am not running HighMem as I've read that it may expose a dormant bug on these newer kernels.
A bug in BadRAM or the kernel proper? There was/is a bug in the original BadRAM patch with HighMem though it should be fixed in my patch. It might be worth you trying it.
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I hope this helps in case you are still concerned about the patch. Thank you for getting it to kernel version 2.6 and I think we all hope that it can make it in the official baseline at some point so that regular users will be able to take advantage of it.
-Harold
Yes, it does seem to be okay. I had unfortunatly made my system unstable by tweaking the chipset PCI configuration space. The tweaking was stable on 2.4.x so I had assumed it wasn't the problem... it was! 2.6 seems to put more stress on the system (probably due to CPU optimized memcopy's or something similar).
Thankyou for the feedback.
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Steve
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