[Nottingham] Tux Magazine - good for new users + #nlug

[Alex Tibbles]

--- Martin Garton <martin at stupids.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 08:47 +0000, Michael Erskine
> wrote:
> 
> >     Slab corruption: (Not tainted) start=c2c61000,
> len=4096
> 
> I think this is either a kernel bug or bad memory.
> I've had it before
> with bad memory.  (could be possibly other bad
> hardware, but I'm no
> expert on that)

Is there a way in stock kernels to disable memory
ranges (when known bad)? IIRC there is a module that
simply reserves bad memory for kernel use and never
uses it. Ah! http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ and
http://badmem.sourceforge.net/ seem dead.

Alex


		
___________________________________________________________ 
Yahoo! Photos – NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com