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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 19:55:39
Message-Id: YU4tMR2N2geVd8II@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ? by Mark Knecht
1 210924 Mark Knecht 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 MK> I have no direct experience with this error,
11 > however I'd suggest it was most likely an error
12 > reading a block of DRAM and not likely the CPU itself failing.
13 > I periodically get mce errors on my i980 machine
14 > when running big PixInsight jobs and I hit thermal limits.
15
16 I thought you had written "1980 machine" (grin).
17
18 > I'd suggest you run extensive memory tests
19 > and if you don't see any problems don't worry too much.
20 > It's always wise to do good backups in case the problem gets worse.
21
22 Everything is backed up, incl off-site.
23
24 > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 8:23 AM Andrew Udvare <audvare@×××××.com> wrote:
25 >> man mcelog
26
27 'man mcelog' + 'man mce' find nothing. does it need to be installed ?
28
29 Thanks for the advice so far.
30
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Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ? Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>