"too many Processor corrected errors detected on cpu 0" What do it mean?

From: Richard Bemrose <rb237_at_phy.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:21:13 +0000 (GMT)

Hello fellow admin,

One of our Personal Workstation 433au with 2Mb L2 cache (running Digital
UNIX V4.0c) has just reported a strange warning:

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WARNING: too many Processor corrected errors detected on cpu 0. Reporting suspended.
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The following is an DECevent entry:

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******************************** ENTRY 756 ********************************

Logging OS 2. Digital UNIX
System Architecture 2. Alpha
Event sequence number 550.
Timestamp of occurrence 29-OCT-1998 13:33:32
Host name alpha3

System type register x0000001E Systype 30. (Miata)
Number of CPUs (mpnum) x00000001
CPU logging event (mperr) x00000000

Event validity 1. O/S claims event is valid
Event severity 1. Severe Priority
Entry type 100. CPU Machine Check Errors

CPU Minor class 3. Bcache error (630 entry)

Entry Body Size: x00000068
Entry body:

          15--<-12 11--<-08 07--<-04 03--<-00 :Byte Order
 0000: 00000038 00000018 80000000 00000068 *h...........8...*
 0010: FFFFFF00 03DE260F 00000000 00000086 *.........&......*
 0020: FFFFFFF0 C5FFFFFF 00000000 0000A400 *................*
 0030: 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 *................*
 0040: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 *................*
 0050: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 *................*
 0060: 5E3C7E25 00000000 * ....%~<^*
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Do we have a problem with the secondary cache as suggested from above?

Summary to follow.

Regards,
Rich

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