Re: [CentOS] x86_64 EDAC throwing error
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:33 PM, natecen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: Kurian Thayil wrote: I understand this is an error message from Error Detection And Control module and just wanna confirm that this is not a kernel or software related issue. If Hardware related is it confined only to the Physical memory stick installed or processor related? Any hint on this?? Login to the iLO/iLO2 interface and look at the system event log, all DL585s will log memory errors there, and will even tell you what memory module it is. In addition to Nate's suggestion, you may be able to use the mcelog utility to check for CPU and memory faults: http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2009/06/11/locating-hardware-faults-on-linux-servers/ Hope this helps, - Ryan -- http://prefetch.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] x86_64 EDAC throwing error
Greetings, On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Kurian Thayilkurianmtha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, We have installed CentOS 5.3 x86_64 in an HP DL585 server with AMD Opteron 64 bit processor and 16 GB RAM. The kernel version is 2.6.18-128.el5 . Now this has thrown an error message in /var/log/message, Jul 3 21:41:11 db1 kernel: EDAC k8 MC0: general bus error: participating processor(local node origin), time-out(no timeout) memory transaction type(generic read), mem or i/o(mem access), cache level(generic) While I cant throw much light on this particular problem, I have faced some peoblem as the opeteron based DL 3x5 g5 servers require RAM to be populated evenly among the CPU sockets Just my 2p ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] x86_64 EDAC throwing error
Kurian Thayil wrote: I understand this is an error message from Error Detection And Control module and just wanna confirm that this is not a kernel or software related issue. If Hardware related is it confined only to the Physical memory stick installed or processor related? Any hint on this?? Login to the iLO/iLO2 interface and look at the system event log, all DL585s will log memory errors there, and will even tell you what memory module it is. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
