On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 06:26:49PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 18/10/2011, at 17:49, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> That would be absolutely helpful! After all, FreeBSD is primarily a > >> server OS, and where would one have ECC if not on servers. Being able > >> to determine what's wrong with memory would be certainly very valuable > >> for many admins. > > > > This has been done, and it was committed a couple days ago as > > sysutils/mcelog. There are a couple thing about the port which bother > > me[1], and there is one warning which can be safely ignored (I'm a > > strong advocate of -Werror) but I do have a fix for that, but otherwise > > it's functional. > > Do MCA log events cause anything in devd? > > It would be _super_ neat if the mcelog port installed a devd rule which > emailed root@ with the human readable version of an MCA exception :) > > I suspect this wouldn't be too difficult to do for a JKH.
Why? Most MCEs on FreeBSD will panic the machine. I would need to go through the MCA code to see what all gets handled elegantly, but I imagine there isn't much. Also, isn't devd for device removal/insertions? This would be using devd for something it isn't intended for. I guess I have "moral objections" to it. What you're really wanting is Solaris's fmd(1m) daemon, which I believe is also tied heavily into Solaris's smf(5) architecture. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1462/fmd-1m.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
