From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 18:45:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3074B106566C; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:45:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE008FC08; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:45:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm9 with SMTP id 9so1997037fxm.13 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:45:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=cH0gpt0NVscu96qXUXadzBHcGVkxxMPvuv+ZLDOEshs=; b=T7bMZUkE9QUmIOXyxjYV1dBmggevt3psM1vzm906I1xEhdHWyWsP8E4apnRbB4Kg9i deDWpxWPFixZs5oKC656WDCKep+W4+ESFlwQHKNWImkNHw059x9KT5SL2HNs+EeJ9izo govTJFU3jnXqEL9mVUNTILYFP1Aqn17bRYjEs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=PDbxNPZ2RZL5ZrlgiZqN+QAOdZexrPqEMR7bBSHONHpxd35MCWGwHiXl2hAOjMC1fI GLxTxSMb+sIixi9uTlVc4SMwtK//UkcxN87bHz48BIsAJikJSU/rf8Y9DD7tDaiUhuS8 4YcAKT57UHMDRJ4iS7hDuy1OVstEMYbrBRsHU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.114.69 with SMTP id d5mr2561700faq.58.1285872334979; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.120.139 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:45:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201009301325.15113.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201009300940.43136.jhb@freebsd.org> <201009301325.15113.jhb@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:45:34 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: John Baldwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MCA messages in dmesg X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:45:37 -0000 On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:25 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > Ok, it is a memory error of some sort, but mcelog claims it is a > transaction > timeout rather than an ECC error, per se: > > > I've no idea what specific hardware is busted (memory or motherboard or > CPU), > but I suspect something is likely broken. > Thanks for looking into it, I'm going to play around with BIOS voltages to see if I can achieve some stability since I don't have much to lose trying that first. The system may work fine for a week or more, then have a really bad day. I've made some raises to the cpu voltage and we'll see how that goes. -- Adam Vande More