From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 27 21:40:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACDAE37B408 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 76D9D405C; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:40:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739FEBAB7; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:40:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:40:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: David Kelly Cc: Tenebrae , Alex Varju , Subject: Re: 4.4-rc instability In-Reply-To: <200108280434.f7S4YZw91567@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <20010828003737.M85068-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, David Kelly wrote: >Used to run an installation of about 40 machines, mixed SGI and Sun. >Part of my weekly check was a scan for logged recovered memory errors. >They simply happened sometimes to even healthy machines. But often when >a machine started crashing or unusual process termination, I'd find >several memory errors logged. When the machine is under a maintenance >contract entries in the system log make it easy to have the soft memory >replaced before the machine becomes unstable. I'll chime in with support for buying quality ECC memory. I admin what is quickly reaching fifty SGIs and there is nothing better than having a machine tell you when it's memory is going bad. PCs need something like SGI's ARCS PROM diagnostic tools. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message