From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751581Ab2JOIrT (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2012 04:47:19 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:53091 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750925Ab2JOIrS (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2012 04:47:18 -0400 Message-ID: <507BCD79.4040304@ahsoftware.de> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:46:49 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121009 Thunderbird/16.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Jan Kara , Dan Carpenter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:3205 (stable 3.5.3) References: <50531629.9020107@ahsoftware.de> <20120925110206.GD28937@mwanda> <50643C4A.9010202@ahsoftware.de> <20120927151232.GA12210@quack.suse.cz> <506474E8.3030300@ahsoftware.de> <20120927200342.GB12553@quack.suse.cz> <506746EF.5070000@ahsoftware.de> <20121001091001.GA22800@quack.suse.cz> <506960AE.2000402@ahsoftware.de> <506AB426.4000407@ahsoftware.de> <507A8189.7020402@ahsoftware.de> <20121014132714.7a869932@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121014132714.7a869932@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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