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From: Felix von Leitner <felix-linuxkernel@fefe.de>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: MCEs
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:45:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081024124502.GA9425@codeblau.de> (raw)

I am getting frequent MCEs on my Linux desktop, when I am encoding TV
recordings to H.264 using mencoder.  It is a dual core box, I am using
2.6.27 (but have had the problem for a while now).

This is the kind of MCE that freezes the box and causes a panic.  The
trace does not end up in syslog.  I found a program called mcelog which
I am supposed to call regularly from cron, but how can that help me when
the first MCE I get insta-panics the box?

Now the most common causes for MCEs are apparently heat issues and bad
memory.  I can rule out both.  Could this be an artifact of some bad
ACPI tables?

How do you debug this kind of problem?

Thanks,

Felix

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-24 12:45 Felix von Leitner [this message]
2008-10-24 16:23 ` MCEs Tony Vroon
2008-10-24 18:04 ` MCEs Andi Kleen
2008-10-24 21:44   ` MCEs Felix von Leitner
2008-10-24 23:07   ` MCEs Felix von Leitner
2008-10-25  7:00     ` MCEs Andi Kleen
2008-10-25 10:05       ` MCEs Felix von Leitner

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