Ever since installing 7.4-PRERELEASE I'm seeing MCA machine check errors on my home-server. They usually occur during my Sunday-night level1 dump via ssh to a disk connected to a different machine, although that's probably not relevant.
Today I finally managed to catch it on the terminal, here's a hand-transcribed
copy:
MCA: Bank 0, Status 0xb622000000000135
MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000104, Status 0x0000000000000004
MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD". ID 0x662, APIC ID 1
MCA: CPU 0 UNCOR PCC DCACHE L1 DRD error
MCA: Address 0x162933f0
Fatal trap 20: Machine check trap while in user mode
cpuid = 0; apic id = 01
instruction pointer = 0x33:0x8086bd0
stack pointer = 0x3b:0xbfbfd390
frame pointer = 0x3b:0xbfbfd3e8
code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
= DPL 3, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags = interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0
current process = 18119 (postgres)
trap number = 20
panic: machine check trap
cpuid = 0
GEOM_MIRROR: Device home: provider mirror/home destroyed.
Dmesg is also attached.
!DSPAM:363,4d3c03e411733364220958!
dmesg_20110123
Description: Binary data
>From searching the archives I found claims that L1 cache errors would cause >far more troubles than I'm seeing. The user in that case however was using an >Intel-based Thinkpad laptop, while I'm seeing them on an AthlonXP-based server >(Tyan Tiger board, 3Ware RAID-controller, the works). Now there is something unusual about my server that could be related to these MCA errors: It's a dual-CPU motherboard that normally would host two AthlonMP's, but is instead hosting a single AthlonXP. So one of the CPU sockets has no CPU in it. So, what's my situation? Do I need to go looking for a replacement CPU or is something wrong with the machine-check itself? Alban Hertroys -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest. !DSPAM:363,4d3c03e411733364220958!
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