From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:24:05 -0800
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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>>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:52:46 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> said:

  >> I find this comment interesting.  Can you elaborate what you mean by
  >> "slightly buggy systems"?

  Andi> e.g. one bit ECC errors in memory are quite common.  And with
  Andi> ECC memory they are not really fatal.

Yet they are a good indicator that something is wrong (not performing
properly) or may be failing soon.  I don't think putting on blinders
for such problems is a good idea.  Though I agree that the question of
how to report such things without needlessly alerting Joe Clueless is
an interesting challenge.

	--david
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