From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 16 12:54:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B03C137B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:54:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D8C343E4A for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:54:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0GKsfhs093724 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:54:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.1.10]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0GKsdCR011991 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:54:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0GKsd5W067671; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:54:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0GKscEQ067670; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:54:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:54:38 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Mike Tibor Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Trevor Johnson , Wilko Bulte , Kris Kennaway , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unexpected machine check on 5.0 alpha Message-ID: <20030116205438.GA62457@cicely8.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: <15910.50391.473362.53094@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030116114223.L27084-100000@xena.mikey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030116114223.L27084-100000@xena.mikey.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:48:12AM -0900, Mike Tibor wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > (I wrote: ) > > > I believe a 670 machine check can also result from a read of a > > > non-existent I/O space. I'm not a programmer, but could that be the > > > problem here? > > > > No, that's a 660. (system machine check). > > A 670 is much more likely to be bad ram, bad cache, bad CPU, etc. > > Its not always overheating. > > Hmm... well, I got that from Jay Estabrook (works at DEC/Compaq/HP) via > the axp-list@redhat.com. The archived message is here: Single bit errors on ram are non fatal and reported by FreeBSD as processor correctable error. In the most cases you don't get fatal memory errors without some non-fatal errors. You may want to remove and reinsert the simms. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message