kernel MCA messages

[Dan Langille]

On 8/23/2010 7:47 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 24/08/2010 02:43 Dan Langille said the following:
>> On 8/22/2010 10:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> On 8/22/2010 9:18 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>>>> What does this mean?
>>>>
>>>> kernel: MCA: Bank 4, Status 0x940c4001fe080813
>>>> kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000105, Status 0x0000000000000000
>>>> kernel: MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0xf5a, APIC ID 0
>>>> kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR BUSLG Source RD Memory
>>>> kernel: MCA: Address 0x7ff6b0
>>>>
>>>> FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE #1: Sun Aug 22 23:16:43
>>>
>>> And another one:
>>>
>>> kernel: MCA: Bank 4, Status 0x9459c0014a080813
>>> kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000105, Status 0x0000000000000000
>>> kernel: MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0xf5a, APIC ID 0
>>> kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR BUSLG Source RD Memory
>>> kernel: MCA: Address 0x7ff670
>>
>> kernel: MCA: Bank 4, Status 0x947ec000d8080a13
>> kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000105, Status 0x0000000000000000
>> kernel: MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0xf5a, APIC ID 0
>> kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR BUSLG Responder RD Memory
>> kernel: MCA: Address 0xbfa9930
>>
>> Another one.
>>
>> These errors started appearing after upgrading to 8.1-STABLE from 7.2..
>> something.  I suspect the functionality was added about then
>
> Please strop the flood :-)

Sure.  Three emails is hardly a flood.  :)

> Depending on hardware there could be hundreds of such errors per day.
> Either replace memory modules or learn to live with these messages.

I was posting a remark anyone.  Thought I'd include one more that I 
noticed.  Surely you can cope.  :)

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