From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 8 16: 6:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A592137B404 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:06:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14181; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:36:23 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:36:23 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Chris Dillon Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? Cc: David Kelly Cc: David Kelly , FreeBSD Chat List , Francisco Reyes Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 08-Jan-01 Chris Dillon wrote: > thing" and halt. AFAIK, FreeBSD will always panic whenever it > receives an NMI (unless possibly you specify the NMI_POWERFAIL option > in your kernel config), so I simply turn off NMIs for correctable > errors and leave the NMI on for non-correctable errors. That way > FreeBSD will not panic when a correction has happened and it can carry > on its merry business, but it will take the proper action by panicing > when a non-correctable error has happened. I think 4.x doesn't panic on ECC NMI's anymore but I'm not sure. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message