Re: New reliability technique

From: Janos Farkas
Date: Sun Feb 26 2006 - 03:53:45 EST


> > >>On 2/25/06, Victor Porton <porton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>A minute ago I invented a new reliability enhancing technique.

> > >>>In idle cycles (or periodically in expense of some performance) Linux can
> > >>>calculate MD5 or CRC sums of _unused_ (free) memory areas and compare these
> > >>>sums with previously calculated sums.

On 2006-02-25 at 20:56:27, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Ohh, ok, then it makes sense as a debug thing.
>
> Let's see an implementation then.

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9701.1/0058.html

At least a variation of it, maybe not from a minute ago :)
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