From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 8 17:34:40 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 B5F5A37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:34:21 -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 MAA15615; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:02:52 +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 12:02:52 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Chris Dillon Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? Cc: Francisco Reyes Cc: Francisco Reyes , FreeBSD Chat List , David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 09-Jan-01 Chris Dillon wrote: > > I think 4.x doesn't panic on ECC NMI's anymore but I'm not sure. > Out of curiosity, how does the OS know exactly what event triggered > the NMI? I know what an NMI can mean, but I don't know what it REALLY > IS, you know what I mean? The technical answer for exactly what an > NMI is and what it consists of is welcome. :-) Yeah, sorry I don't have a clue :) I'm sure someone out there does.. Answer us damnit! :) --- 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