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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:46:06
Message-Id: AANLkTimfpE6_hXSFObJ5Ycw6+Eesj3+MTkTmi=jvDkGU@mail.gmail.com
1 I'm getting a lot of machine check exception errors in dmesg on my
2 hosted server. Running mcelog I get:
3
4 # mcelog
5 HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
6 Please contact your hardware vendor
7 MCE 0
8 CPU 0 4 northbridge TSC 5ab2d0c67592a
9 MISC c008001901000000 ADDR a2d6e1f0
10 Northbridge RAM Chipkill ECC error
11 Chipkill ECC syndrome = 7b58
12 bit40 = error found by scrub
13 bit46 = corrected ecc error
14 bit59 = misc error valid
15 bus error 'local node response, request didn't time out
16 generic read mem transaction
17 memory access, level generic'
18 STATUS 9c2c41007b080a13 MCGSTATUS 0
19 MCGCAP c008001a01000000 SOCKETID 7b080a13
20 HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
21 Please contact your hardware vendor
22 MCE 1
23 CPU 0 4 northbridge TSC 5aee3f082740a
24 MISC c008001a01000000 ADDR a2d6e1f0
25 Northbridge RAM Chipkill ECC error
26 Chipkill ECC syndrome = 7b58
27 bit46 = corrected ecc error
28 bit59 = misc error valid
29 bus error 'local node response, request didn't time out
30 generic read mem transaction
31 memory access, level generic'
32 STATUS 9c2c40007b080a13 MCGSTATUS 0
33 SOCKETID 0
34
35 Should I just contact the hosting company? Can anyone give me more
36 info on what this means? Bad memory?
37
38 - Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] machine check exception errors Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>