From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 28 2:19:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp9.xs4all.nl (smtp9.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4851437B407 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 02:19:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp9.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA21316 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:19:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7S9Jng95673 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:19:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:19:49 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-rc instability Message-ID: <20010828111949.B95570@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010828003737.M85068-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <200108280900.LAA24294@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108280900.LAA24294@lurza.secnetix.de>; from olli@secnetix.de on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:00:37AM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:00:37AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > > 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. > > Unfortunately, FreeBSD does not support ECC RAM (or did > that change recently?). ? ECC is a hardware function. All of my Alpha machines have ECC memory (for example). -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message