From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 23:13:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26AAD1065679 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:13:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F079B8FC14 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:13:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628E450BAB for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:13:32 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sJJqJ+Z0yaNK for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:13:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from smtp-auth.unixathome.org (smtp-auth.unixathome.org [10.4.7.7]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6DABF50BA4 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:13:28 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4C745213.3050004@langille.org> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:13:23 -0400 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable References: <4C71CC62.6060803@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <4C71CC62.6060803@langille.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: kernel MCA messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:13:33 -0000 On 8/22/2010 9:18 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > What does this mean? > > kernel: MCA: Bank 4, Status 0x940c4001fe080813 > kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000105, Status 0x0000000000000000 > kernel: MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0xf5a, APIC ID 0 > kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR BUSLG Source RD Memory > kernel: MCA: Address 0x7ff6b0 > > FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE #1: Sun Aug 22 23:16:43 FYI, these are occurring every hour, almost to the second. e.g. xx:56:yy, where yy is 09, 10, or 11. Checking logs, I don't see anything that correlates with this point in the hour (i.e 56 minutes past) that doesn't also occur at other times. It seems very odd to occur so regularly. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/