From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 28 14:17: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-172.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10FC37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7SLIEv08525 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 17:18:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 17:18:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: Subject: Re: 4.4-rc instability In-Reply-To: <200108280900.LAA24294@lurza.secnetix.de> Message-ID: 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 Tue, 28 Aug 2001, 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?). That's news to me. I've been successfully running a stick of Crucial PC2100 ECC for months now. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message