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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:40:13 +0200
From:      "M.Hirsch" <M.Hirsch@hirsch.it>
To:        Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...
Message-ID:  <44A0705D.3030100@hirsch.it>
In-Reply-To: <E1Fv0TK-000Pee-3t@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
References:  <E1Fv0TK-000Pee-3t@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>

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So what do I need to do to make the box panic() on an ECC error?
Is there a kernel parameter, sysctl, or what else?

Thanks,
M.

Pete French schrieb:

>>I am not looking for workarounds, like ECC. I want the box to break 
>>immediately once any single component goes wrong...
>>    
>>
>
>Uh, that *is* what ECC does (or can do). Without ECC your broken hardware
>continues to run un-noticed. With ECC you can either make it break
>immediatley, or log an error or continue to run.
>
>Stop thinking of ECC as error correction and start thinking of it as
>error detection. No ECC gives you no way to detect failing memory.
>
>-pete.
>  
>




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