On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 11:28:08PM +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > > 2.3/4 kernels use a SLAB cache for inodes, instead of an ad hoc
> > > cache. the old limit was used to determine when to reap inodes.
> > > the new system reaps them automatically when system memory is short.
> >
> > Good. That's what I was hoping for.
>
> Does this means buffer cache corruption causing Linux 2.2.x to lose its
> lunch are a thing of the past? 'Cause I've just had my machine die twice
> in the last two days due to this thing!
>
> I'd love to see self-correcting software ECC for caches.
Hmm. BK has a sort of lame checksum that it uses for integrity and we
used to see checksum failures frequently until I stopped buying memory
without ECC. This same lame checksum was what found the cache aliasing
bug in SPARC/Linux.
At any rate, I have been using 2.2.15-pre9 for months without any errors
so are you sure that it is buffer cache corruption and not bad memory
dimms? If you are sure, I want to know.
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