Bug#684666: R: Bug#684666: AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.

["asronchetti@libero.it" <asronchetti@libero.it>]

Hi,

i was using SSD + 4gB(A)

(A) is the first of the 2 4gB banks.

while browsing the plugin-container crashed many times, like this (from 
syslog):


kernel: [24135.522448] plugin-containe[7418] general protection ip:
7f23ffe8c1a1 sp:7f23fe02da00 error:0 in libflashplayer.so[7f23ff830000+117b000]


then i launched xchat and let it run all night to download a big film (1080p, 
so it's ~20gB), but when i woke up i 've found that at ~6 o'clock (after ~10 
hours of xchat usage) xchat crashed:

xchat: *** glibc detected *** xchat: free(): invalid next size (fast): 
0x000000000172aa30 ***

Now it's 12:18:26 (UTC+2) and uptime is "up 14:29".

There wasnt (not yet) a system-level crash, but i think that those problems 
could be a good reason for me to move to the next test: 4gB(B)

[ with (B) as the second bank of the 2 4gB banks that are part of the 8gB set]

I think that another good test to do after that will be mixing the banks (1 of 
the known good 2*2gB set + 1 of the 2*4gB set), when doing that what is the 
right bank to put in the first slot (the lower one, the one that's the nearest 
to the mobo) , the 2gB or the 4gB one? Or is it the same?


ciao
Asdrubale