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Date:      Sat, 13 Apr 2002 21:17:23 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely9.cicely.de>
To:        Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Processor correctable error ?
Message-ID:  <20020413191722.GE10043@cicely9.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0204132046020.19908-100000@dijkstra.fi.infn.it>
References:  <Pine.NEB.4.44.0204132046020.19908-100000@dijkstra.fi.infn.it>

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On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:47:23PM +0200, Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> today I saw this message from my kernel
> 
> Apr 12 15:00:02 durlindana /kernel: Warning: received processor correctable error.
> 
> What it could be ??
> I have a Miata running FreeBSD 4.5-stable

A processessor correctable error is an error condition fixed by
hardware or PALcode.
Most likely it's an ECC error on RAM.

DRAM has a softerror rate so single bit errors ocur every now and then.
If you get less than once a month I wouldn't worry about.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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