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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:04:07 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird messages output
Message-ID:  <2B277B33-A56F-4E77-9E57-7F4777B22D2F@anduin.net>
In-Reply-To: <1175002427.44767.41.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
References:  <1D425A90-3619-48B7-8171-13ECC9A31087@anduin.net> <1175002427.44767.41.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>

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On 27. mar. 2007, at 15.33, Gavin Atkinson wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 15:00 +0200, Eirik =D8verby wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> running 6.1-RELEASE on several HP DL385 servers (identically
>> configured), one of them has recently spat the following out in the /
>> var/log/messages file:
>>
>> ..........
>> Mar 10 03:51:24 apphost02 ntpd[445]: kernel time sync enabled 2001
>> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: NMI ISA 30, EISA ff
>> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: k
>> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: NMIN MIIe SIASA  202r,0 ,E IESIAS A
>> ffnf
>> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: f
>> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel:
>> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: el trap 19 with interrupts disabled
>> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: NMI ISA 20, EISA ff
>> Mar 10 06:08:01 apphost02 ntpd[445]: kernel time sync enabled 6001
>> ..........
>>
>> NMI =3D non-maskable interrupt, if I remember correctly. However, I
>> have no idea what this means or why it appeared. The status light on
>> the front of the server has lit up red, as opposed to the usual
>> green. All services on the host are running and behaving normally
>> from what I can tell.
>
> I suspect you'll find your (ECC) memory has problems.

You are absolutely correct. Further investigation using the ProLiant =20
management tools for FreeBSD revealed serious RAM trouble. Two banks =20
were degraded, so we have now had the modules replaced on-site.

Thanks for the tip!
Do you happen to know if there are any "generic" tools/daemons =20
available to decipher such NMIs? Perhaps be able to send SNMP traps =20
or something?

/Eirik

>
> Gavin
>




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