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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