Re: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:3205 (stable 3.5.3)

[Alexander Holler]

Am 14.10.2012 14:27, schrieb Alan Cox:
> > The people which are responsible that the chips for "consumer"-HW and
> > laptops got their (already included) ECC functionality disabled should
> > get hit with Googles (now 3y old) study on that topic all the day.
> > Leaving customers in danger by not offering them at least the
> > possibility to use ECC RAM is just stupid.
>
> For the amount of RAM in devices now days then yes probably a good idea.
> Adding to the problem is that there is an active market in fake brandname
> DIMMs.

My solution is now that I will add memtest=1 to all my own Linux systems 
which don't have ECC (unfortunatley currently almost all). That doesn't 
cost that much time at startup and will give me at least a small chance 
to spot those extremely hard to find problems.

Regards,

Alexander

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