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Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2013
Applicant:

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Jerry D. Ackaret, Beaverton, OR (US);

Sumeet Kochar, Apex, NC (US);

Randolph S. Kolvick, Durham, NC (US);

Wilson E. Smith, Bahama, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/073 (2013.01); G06F 11/0754 (2013.01);
Abstract

Managing faulty memory pages in a computing system, including: tracking, by a page management module, a number of errors associated with a memory page; determining, by the page management module, whether the number of errors associated with the memory page exceeds a predetermined threshold; responsive to determining that the number of errors associated with the memory page exceeds the predetermined threshold, attempting, by the page management module, to retire the memory page; determining, by the page management module, whether the memory page has been successfully retired; and responsive to determining that the memory page has not been successfully retired, generating, by the page management module, a predictive failure alert.


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