per...@pluto.rain.com writes:
> Frederic Perrin <f...@resel.fr> wrote:
>
>> ... I don't know what MCA, DRD, SNOOP and {D,G}CACHE stand for...
>
> MCA = Machine Check Architecture.
> DRD here probably refers to a data read cycle.
> SNOOP has to do with hardware-maintained cache coherency.
> DCACHE = data cache.
>
> Google and/or Wikipedia may help with the details.Thanks for the pointers. >> Is it a transient error? > > I _think_ the COR refers to a corrected error, but that could be > either transient (a random bit-flip, possibly due to a cosmic > ray hit) or permanent (a bit in the cache has gone bad). In the > latter case I'd expect ongoing error messages, rather than just > two isolated occurrences. This server has been running since about 18 months, with a current uptime of 75 days. This is the first time this message appeared, and has not returned yet. I'll shrug it off as a one-time glitch. Thanks for your comments. Have a nice day, -- Frédéric Perrin -- http://tar-jx.bz _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
