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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Received on Thu Oct 29 1998 - 16:22:11 NZDT