On Friday, 22 May 2020 16:37:57 BST Alain D D Williams via GLLUG wrote: > The message below was put to all login sessions this morning. I have never > seen this before. There is nothing more in /var/log/messages. > > The machine is 8 years old, always switched on, AMD 8150 Eight-Core > Processor. > > Should I take this as a warning and look to replace the machine or just > shrug my shoulders & mutter something about cosmic rays ? > > TIA > > > Message from syslogd@mint at May 22 07:27:09 ... > kernel:[Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): L3 data cache ECC error. > > Message from syslogd@mint at May 22 07:27:09 ... > kernel:[Hardware Error]: Error Status: Corrected error, no action required. > > Message from syslogd@mint at May 22 07:27:09 ... > kernel:[Hardware Error]: CPU:0 (15:1:2) > MC4_STATUS[-|CE|MiscV|-|AddrV|-|Poison|CECC]: 0x9d5c4881011c011b > > Message from syslogd@mint at May 22 07:27:09 ... > kernel:[Hardware Error]: MC4_ADDR: 0x000000076f75be90 > > Message from syslogd@mint at May 22 07:27:09 ... > kernel:[Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, tx: GEN, mem-tx: RD
Several years ago there was an on-line demonstration of an SGI Purple computer which used terabytes of non-ECC RAM because of the price, and simply marked faulty sections as not available until they could be bothered to shut down and swap it. -- Chris Bell Website http://chrisbell.org.uk -- GLLUG mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
