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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:25:04 +0000
Subject: RE: new utility for decoding salinfo records
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>>>>> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:49:52 -0800, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> said:

  Tony> For this system you really wouldn't want to wake your system
  Tony> admins for every single bit error that was reported

Of course not.

  Tony> (though summarizing the errors in a weekly/monthly report
  Tony> would of course be a good thing).  I believe that
  Tony> salinfo_decode2 makes doing this easy too.

Yes.  While individual single-bit errors aren't terribly interesting,
periodic summaries almost certainly would be.  If only so you know
when to order replacement DIMMs... ;-)

	--david