Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:36:23 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD Chat List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? Message-ID: <XFMail.010109103623.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101081200510.96355-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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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. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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