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List:       bluesmoke-devel
Subject:    Re: i5000_edac message about corrected errors to LOUD???
From:       Doug Thompson <norsk5 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2008-01-04 4:14:55
Message-ID: 269780.21865.qm () web50101 ! mail ! re2 ! yahoo ! com
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Thanks max,

I will look at it and examine its volume

doug t

--- Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Somebody asked me today what this message meant:
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> Dec 19 04:53:41 node001 kernel: EDAC i5000 MC0: NON-FATAL ERRORS Found!!! 1st NON-FATAL Err Reg=
> 0x2000
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> This happens to be a corrected memory error. Why is the message all-caps
> and why does it require three exclamation marks?
> Single bit corrected memory errors should not in general be cause for
> immediate alarm. I think this type of message could send to wrong kind
> of signal and be cause for unnecessary alarm and possible calls from
> customers for replacement of perfectly good DIMMs.
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> Max
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