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Machine check exceptions occur when a piece of hardware's self-monitoring routines detect a discrepancy in some of its data. This is commonly used in cpus (cat /proc/cpuinfo and look for "mce" in the features) because of the relatively high levels of heat they have to endure. Heat, static, foreign materials, and fluctuations in voltage can corrupt data in a CPUs cache and data pathways. When the MCE subroutines detect this, the behavior (if enabled) in newer kernels is to output this information to the console. Correctable incidents are okay, and happen from time to time. Fatal incidents, however, are not, and usually indicate something serious going on, like overheating or a defect in the hardware. What you're seeing is likely just a fluke, unless it's repeated with alarming frequency.
Andrew Gaffney wrote:
I found this in dmesg:
MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0.
Bank 0: e6100000000001f5
What does that mean?
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