Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-21 Thread Dan Ritter
krys...@ibse.cz wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > The kernel announces readiness during boot with: > > dmesg:[ 18.331561] EDAC amd64: Node 0: DRAM ECC enabled. > > > > and then an event looks like this: > > Message from syslogd@HOSTNAME at Jan 25 15:05:51 ... > > kernel:[5964975.397283] [Hardware

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-21 Thread krystof
Dan Ritter wrote: > The kernel announces readiness during boot with: > dmesg:[ 18.331561] EDAC amd64: Node 0: DRAM ECC enabled. > > and then an event looks like this: > Message from syslogd@HOSTNAME at Jan 25 15:05:51 ... > kernel:[5964975.397283] [Hardware Error]: Corrected error, no > action

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Anssi Saari wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > We see ECC errors irregularly and infrequently on both Intel and > > AMD CPUs. > > How/where do you see those on a Debian system? I looked into this > briefly but didn't get anywhere. The kernel announces readiness during boot with: dmesg:[

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-21 Thread Anssi Saari
krys...@ibse.cz writes: > PS: Some commercial memtests should allegedly be able to inject ECC > errors (for example the one from passmark), have anyone tried those? I've tried Passmark's memory tester (the commercial one which includes ECC error injection), but I've had no luck. My desktop has

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-21 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > We see ECC errors irregularly and infrequently on both Intel and > AMD CPUs. How/where do you see those on a Debian system? I looked into this briefly but didn't get anywhere.

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-20 Thread krystof
Dne úterý 21. února 2023 1:20:50 CET, DdB napsal(a): > Lucky me, i just looked up my hardware (Dual CPU on server MB): > > > https://versus.com/en/amd-epyc-7282 > > Supports ECC memory Yes, but it is sad that you have to search for this information somewhere else than on vendors website. But

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-20 Thread DdB
Am 20.02.2023 um 23:48 schrieb krys...@ibse.cz: > I am sorry, it was little missleading - not that they can not support them, > but there is no official document that would state so. The only official > specsheet I saw that explicitely mentions ECC support is this one: >

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-20 Thread Dan Ritter
krys...@ibse.cz wrote: > Dear Debian community, > we recently started using AMD Ryzen CPUs, ASRock Rack motherboards and > Kingston unbuffered ECC DIMMs for our small bussiness servers. All the > servers are running on ZFS for which ECC memory is recommended. So I naively > tried to test it

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-20 Thread krystof
DdB wrote: > Did you really read, that epycs cannot support ECC? > At least i can say, that my pools did not report any faults (which ofc > would be several layers above ecc) either in 3 years, which did help in > falling asleep. ;-) I am sorry, it was little missleading - not that they can not

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-20 Thread gene heskett
On 2/20/23 13:12, John Hasler wrote: Tape the Americium-241 button out of a smoke detector to a RAM chip. Ooooh, that would be nasty ;o(> But it ought to do the trick. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-20 Thread DdB
Am 20.02.2023 um 18:42 schrieb krys...@ibse.cz: > Dear Debian community, > we recently started using AMD Ryzen CPUs, ASRock Rack motherboards and > Kingston unbuffered ECC DIMMs for our small bussiness servers. All the > servers are running on ZFS for which ECC memory is recommended. So I

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-20 Thread John Hasler
> Hi, thank you for the answer. Honestly it came to my mind I could make > some kind of neutrino emitter, since according to most articles it is > the main source of ECC errors, Neutrons, not neutrinos. The latter rarely interact with matter at all. A neutron source is fairly difficult to make.

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Tape the Americium-241 button out of a smoke detector to a RAM chip. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA