MCA messages after upgrade to 8.2-BEAT1

[Dan Langille]

On 12/22/2010 9:57 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 22, 2010 7:41:25 am Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>> Dec 21 12:42:26 kavkaz kernel: MCA: Bank 0, Status 0xd40e400000000833
>> Dec 21 12:42:26 kavkaz kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000105,
>> Status 0x0000000000000000
>> Dec 21 12:42:26 kavkaz kernel: MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0x40f33,
>> APIC ID 0
>> Dec 21 12:42:26 kavkaz kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR OVER BUSLG Source DRD Memory
>> Dec 21 12:42:26 kavkaz kernel: MCA: Address 0x236493c0
>
> You are getting corrected ECC errors in your RAM.  You see them once an hour
> because we poll the machine check registers once an hour.  If this happens
> constantly you might have a DIMM that is dying?

John:

I take it these ECC errors *may* have been happening for some time. 
What has changed is the OS now polls for the errors and reports them.

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