Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:00:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-rc instability Message-ID: <200108280900.LAA24294@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20010828003737.M85068-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net> 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?). Regards Oliver (not buying ECC RAM anymore) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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