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On Tuesday 14 September 2010 19:16:52 Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 09:45 -0700, Grant wrote: |
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> > I'm getting a lot of machine check exception errors in dmesg on my |
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> > hosted server. Running mcelog I get: |
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> > # mcelog |
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> > HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem! |
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> [...] |
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> > Should I just contact the hosting company? Can anyone give me more |
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> > info on what this means? Bad memory? |
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> They are likely better able to help you if it's a hardware problem. |
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It reads as if the error correction in one of the RAM modules is kicking in. |
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Ask them to reseat or replace the bad module - which they will have to find by |
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trial and error. They could hot-swap them and see then the errors stop. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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