Re: kernel panic at load average of 24 is it acceptable ?

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Vikas Kedia wrote:
> Here is the output of mcelog:
> root@srv1:~# less /var/log/mcelog
> MCE 0
> CPU 0 0 data cache TSC 6988ae18046
> ADDR f87f5ec0
>  Data cache ECC error (syndrome ce)
>       bit46 = corrected ecc error
>  bus error 'local node origin, request didn't time out
>      data read mem transaction
>      memory access, level generic'
> STATUS 9467400000000833 MCGSTATUS 0
> MCE 0
> CPU 0 0 data cache TSC 723b38a3633
> ADDR 3d9fc0
>  Data cache ECC error (syndrome ce)
>       bit46 = corrected ecc error
>       bit62 = error overflow (multiple errors)
>  bus error 'local node origin, request didn't time out
>      data read mem transaction
>      memory access, level generic'
> STATUS d467400000000833 MCGSTATUS 0
> 
> Since it shows ECC error is the hypothesis correct that its the RAM
> problem and replacing it should solve the problem.

That looks like a data cache ECC error, which would point to a CPU 
problem in that case..

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