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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ?
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:48:47
Message-Id: YU2tBxRrC9KRapVU@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ? by Andrew Udvare
1 210924 Andrew Udvare wrote:
2 > On 2021-09-24, at 05:58, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
3 >> While I was asleep yesterday, my machine reported on all 3 Konsoles :
4 >> Message from syslogd@ at Thu Sep 23 19:38:11 2021 ...
5 >> : mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 4: 9d0b4c16001d011b
6 >> Message from syslogd@ at Thu Sep 23 19:38:11 2021 ...
7 >> : mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 ADDR 19e617980 MISC c01a000001000000
8 >> Message from syslogd@ at Thu Sep 23 19:38:11 2021 ...
9 >> : mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 2:600f20 TIME 1632440315 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 6000822
10 >> -- end of report --
11 > From the manpage:
12
13 Which man page is that ?
14
15 > Most errors can be corrected by the CPU
16 > by internal error correction mechanisms. Uncorrected errors cause
17 > machine check exceptions which may kill processes or panic the machine.
18 > A small number of corrected errors is usually not a cause for worry,
19 > but a large number can indicate future failure.
20
21 So it looks as if the above was a correctable error.
22
23 > When an uncorrected machine check error happens
24 > that the kernel cannot recover from, then it will usually panic the system.
25 > In this case when there was a warm reset after the panic,
26 > mcelog should pick up the machine check errors after reboot.
27 > This is not possible after a cold reset.
28
29 No sign of any other effects : everything went on running.
30
31 > If you are overclocking, try disabling it.
32
33 No, I never overclock anything (smile).
34
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