Re: ECC error in 2.5.64 + some patches

Dave Jones
2003-03-27T16:20:21Z

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:02:20AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:

> Message from syslogd@slovax at Thu Mar 27 05:53:49 2003 ...
> slovax kernel: MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0.
>
> Message from syslogd@slovax at Thu Mar 27 05:53:49 2003 ...
> slovax kernel: Bank 1: 9000000000000151

An MCE (Machine Check Exception) could be triggered by any number of
things from bad cooling, underrated power supply, to flaky RAM.
Give things a going over with memtest86 for the latter.
The former just means you pull everything apart and double check
it looks ok.

Dave