Memory error logged in /var/log/messages

[Tomasz Rola]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 02:10:00PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> one of our production servers, 11.2p3 is logging this every couple of minutes:
> 
> Nov 19 11:48:06 ph002 kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR (5) OVER MS channel 3 memory error
> Nov 19 11:48:06 ph002 kernel: MCA: Address 0x1f709a48c0
> Nov 19 11:48:06 ph002 kernel: MCA: Misc 0x90010000040188c
> Nov 19 11:48:06 ph002 kernel: MCA: Bank 12, Status 0xcc00010c000800c3
> Nov 19 11:48:06 ph002 kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000007000c16, Status 0x0000000000000000
> Nov 19 11:48:06 ph002 kernel: MCA: Vendor "GenuineIntel", ID 0x406f1, APIC ID 0
[...]

>From what I understood so far about those things, it is alway good to
start investigation from checking one's power supply. Have a
multimeter and plug it into molex PATA power supply while the box is
working. I have no idea where to plug it in case there is no PATA
cables in your power supply, though.

HTH

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Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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