Weird messages output

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 15:00 +0200, Eirik Øverby wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> running 6.1-RELEASE on several HP DL385 servers (identically  
> configured), one of them has recently spat the following out in the / 
> var/log/messages file:
> 
> ..........
> Mar 10 03:51:24 apphost02 ntpd[445]: kernel time sync enabled 2001
> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: NMI ISA 30, EISA ff
> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: k
> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: NMIN MIIe SIASA  202r,0 ,E IESIAS A  
> ffnf
> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: f
> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel:
> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: el trap 19 with interrupts disabled
> Mar 10 05:02:01 apphost02 kernel: NMI ISA 20, EISA ff
> Mar 10 06:08:01 apphost02 ntpd[445]: kernel time sync enabled 6001
> ..........
> 
> NMI = non-maskable interrupt, if I remember correctly. However, I  
> have no idea what this means or why it appeared. The status light on  
> the front of the server has lit up red, as opposed to the usual  
> green. All services on the host are running and behaving normally  
> from what I can tell.

I suspect you'll find your (ECC) memory has problems.

Gavin