On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:48 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: > I'm looking for a way to force FreeBSD 10 to maintain/watch ECC errors > reported by UEFI (or BIOS). > Since ECC is said to be essential for server systems both in buisness > and science and I do not question this, I was wondering if I can not > report ECC errors via a watchdog or UEFI (ACPI?) report to syslog > facility on FreeBSD. > FreeBSD is supposed to be a server operating system, as far as I know, > so I believe there must be something which didn't have revealed itself > to me, yet. > > Thanks in advance, > Oliver >
If the hardware supports it, such errors should be logged as MCEs (Machine Check Exceptions). I can say for sure it works pretty well with Dell servers, as I had one with failing RAM module, and it reported the corrected ECC errors in dmesg. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
