From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 8 16:35:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE7137B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:34:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04758; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:34:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:34:39 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: David Kelly , FreeBSD Chat List , Francisco Reyes Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 08-Jan-01 Chris Dillon wrote: > > thing" and halt. AFAIK, FreeBSD will always panic whenever it > > receives an NMI (unless possibly you specify the NMI_POWERFAIL option > > in your kernel config), so I simply turn off NMIs for correctable > > errors and leave the NMI on for non-correctable errors. That way > > FreeBSD will not panic when a correction has happened and it can carry > > on its merry business, but it will take the proper action by panicing > > when a non-correctable error has happened. > > I think 4.x doesn't panic on ECC NMI's anymore but I'm not sure. Out of curiosity, how does the OS know exactly what event triggered the NMI? I know what an NMI can mean, but I don't know what it REALLY IS, you know what I mean? The technical answer for exactly what an NMI is and what it consists of is welcome. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message