Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:55:14AM -, Michael van Elst wrote: > The OS could be smart, lock out bad memory regions, recover some > errors by e.g. paging in text data again or even use mirrored RAM > (with motherboard support). IIRC Intel Icelake introduced mechanisms to enable kernels to

Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

kevin.bowl...@kev009.com (Kevin Bowling) writes: >Servers tend to have BMCs, so you can execute 'ipmitool sensors' and >'ipmi sel elist' to get the information out. ECC information is usually not provided by sensors. ECC errors may be listed in the SEL, but even this usually occurs only when

Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 12:19 AM Michael van Elst wrote: > > michael.chepo...@gmail.com (Michael Cheponis) writes: > > >I've been running ECC in the Windows box for years, it seems like a 'no > >brainer' for servers. Servers usually run for years, and Stuff Happens over > >the years [1]. > >But

Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

michael.chepo...@gmail.com (Michael Cheponis) writes: >I've been running ECC in the Windows box for years, it seems like a 'no >brainer' for servers. Servers usually run for years, and Stuff Happens over >the years [1]. >But I'd prefer a reliable, unhackable, trustable compute fabric. ECC is

Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

I've been running ECC in the Windows box for years, it seems like a 'no brainer' for servers. Servers usually run for years, and Stuff Happens over the years [1]. Most of the computing industry has been hell-bent on performance, yielding impressive gains (albeit with occasional setbacks:

Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

On 2024-02-16 01:14, Michael van Elst wrote: We should have EDAC drivers that should at least report events, but so far there is nothing... Sounds like a SoC project? Cheerio, Hauke (FreeBSD appears to be no better off:

Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

On 2024-02-16 01:14, Michael van Elst wrote: We should have EDAC drivers that should at least report events, but so far there is nothing... Sounds like a SoC project? Cheerio, Hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon CampaignHauke Fath () No HTML/RTF in email

Re: NetBSD and ECC RAM?

h...@spg.tu-darmstadt.de ("Hauke Fath (SPG)") writes: >one my favourite blogs is sporting a page on AMD ECC RAM support >, >Is this of any relevance to NetBSD, or do we just not bother? We should have EDAC drivers that

NetBSD and ECC RAM?

Hi, one my favourite blogs is sporting a page on AMD ECC RAM support , linking to . Is this of any relevance to NetBSD, or do we just not bother? Cheerio, Hauke (I