Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:19:49 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-rc instability Message-ID: <20010828111949.B95570@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200108280900.LAA24294@lurza.secnetix.de>; from olli@secnetix.de on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:00:37AM %2B0200 References: <20010828003737.M85068-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <200108280900.LAA24294@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:00:37AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > 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?). ? ECC is a hardware function. All of my Alpha machines have ECC memory (for example). -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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