CC'ing -hackers in case we can scare up some interest . . .
Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi. I took a look over the archives and noticed this ancient
> > thread. (1998) However, I checked the handbook and LINT for options on
> > how FreeBSD logs ECC errors, but I could not find anything. Has this
> > finally been implemented? Or is there currently no way for the OS to
> > detect the # of corrections / detections of errors by DIMM slot?
>
> You're correct; there isn't. It's a relatively simple task that's been
> waiting for a junior hacker to come along and take it up. It's also
> devillishly difficult to _test_ such code...
This would be a very valuable thing to have though (just to restate the
obvious). We had a sun machine go down at work with no symptoms at
all... other than the log which showed that ECC errors were being caught
and corrected (mostly) at a furious pace. If not for that log we would
have spent hours testing possible reasons for the crash.
Doug
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