On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Carl Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alan Cox <[email protected]> writes: > > > 2010/12/23 Dan Langille <[email protected]> > > > >> On 12/22/2010 9:57 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >>> On Wednesday, December 22, 2010 7:41:25 am Miroslav Lachman wrote: > >>> > >>>> Dec 21 12:42:26 kavkaz kernel: MCA: Bank 0, Status 0xd40e400000000833 > >>>> Dec 21 12:42:26 kavkaz kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000105, > >>>> Status 0x0000000000000000 > >>>> Dec 21 12:42:26 kavkaz kernel: MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0x40f33, > >>>> APIC ID 0 > >>>> Dec 21 12:42:26 kavkaz kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR OVER BUSLG Source DRD > >>>> Memory > >>>> Dec 21 12:42:26 kavkaz kernel: MCA: Address 0x236493c0 > >>>> > >>> > >>> You are getting corrected ECC errors in your RAM. You see them once an > >>> hour > >>> because we poll the machine check registers once an hour. If this > happens > >>> constantly you might have a DIMM that is dying? > >>> > >> > >> John: > >> > >> I take it these ECC errors *may* have been happening for some time. What > >> has changed is the OS now polls for the errors and reports them. > >> > >> > > Yes, we enabled MCA by default in 8.1-RELEASE. > > Is there some reason that it is only available for i386 and not for > amd64? Linux has something called mcelog, for machine check errors, > which sounds similar and is available for amd64. > > Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your question, but our MCA driver is supported and enabled by default on both i386 and amd64. Alan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
