From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 2 1:25:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from gnah.bolet.org (gnah.bolet.org [80.65.226.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F15837B425 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 01:25:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pornin@localhost) by gnah.bolet.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g329PT406366 for freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:25:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pornin) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:25:28 +0200 From: Thomas Pornin To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Source of "processor correctable error"? Message-ID: <20020402112528.A6188@gnah.bolet.org> References: <3CA8EADE.C11C8DF7@mindspring.com> <20020402002303.GH41357@cicely8.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20020402002303.GH41357@cicely8.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:23:04AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:23:04AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > Right - it also hasn't to be main memory as D, I and B caches > and some data paths are ECC protected too. For what it's worth: one of the Multia box I once owned died with such "correctable errors". Those would appear upon booting an OS, but SRM was juste fine. There was an error code displayed with the error message; after some in-depth searching through technical documentations and mailing-lists, it turned out to be an error inside the TLB, which is pretty bad since it is inside the CPU. Since the messages would appear at a very high rate, booting would take forever (especially since I had to use a serial console). --Thomas Pornin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message