> On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 08:47:00PM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote:
>
> > Ahh, one of the things I miss from the bad old mainframe days -- coming to
> > work in the morning and finding an email from the system monitoring
> > daemon:
> >
> > My memory is going bad. Please call Field Service and ask them
> > to replace board X. Failing pages marked offline.
>
> If you can migrate the pages. The current Linux MM doesn't support that.
>
> Ralf
Yes, but it could be done. Fairly easily in fact. Bad pages can be marked
not present (extra code), or simply "owned" by kswapd (minimal code). As
with VAX/VMS, a non-kernel task that encountered bad RAM can be killed,
but the rest of the world survives.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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