kernel MCA messages

[Dan Langille]

On 8/22/2010 9:18 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> What does this mean?
>
> kernel: MCA: Bank 4, Status 0x940c4001fe080813
> kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000105, Status 0x0000000000000000
> kernel: MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0xf5a, APIC ID 0
> kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR BUSLG Source RD Memory
> kernel: MCA: Address 0x7ff6b0
>
> FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE #1: Sun Aug 22 23:16:43

FYI, these are occurring every hour, almost to the second. e.g. 
xx:56:yy, where yy is 09, 10, or 11.

Checking logs, I don't see anything that correlates with this point in 
the hour (i.e 56 minutes past) that doesn't also occur at other times.

It seems very odd to occur so regularly.

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