Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:44:30 -0500 | From | Russ Anderson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/22] HWPOISON: Intro (v5) |
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:29:34PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I think you're wrong about killing processes decreasing > reliability. Traditionally we always tried to keep things running if possible > instead of panicing.
Customers love the ia64 feature of killing a user process instead of panicing the system when a user process hits a memory uncorrectable error. Avoiding a system panic is a very good thing.
-- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com
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