RAMpage: Graceful degradation management for memory errors in commodity Linux servers

Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 89-98

  Schirmeier, Horst ^a   Neuhalfen, Jens ^a   Korb, Ingo ^a   Spinczyk, Olaf ^a   Engel, Michael ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DRAM chips; Fault tolerance; Operating systems

Indexed keywords

DATA CORRUPTION; DRAM CHIPS; GRACEFUL DEGRADATION; HARDWARE TEST; LINUX SERVERS; MEMORY ERROR; MEMORY PAGES; MEMORY TESTING; PROGRAM TERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RELIABILITY PROBLEMS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; ERRORS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE;

DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EID: 84857724913     PISSN: 15410110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.2011.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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