Hello fellow admin,
I must first thank all the following people for their quick replies
(5 replies under 30 minutes):
"Raul Sossa S." <RSossa_at_datadec.co.cr>
Serguei Patchkovskii <patchkov_at_ucalgary.ca>
Rodrigo Poblete <rpoblete_at_gmd.com.pe>
"Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646" <tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com>
Debra Alpert <alpert_at_fas.harvard.edu>
In my original poster I asked what the following warning message means:
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WARNING: too many Processor corrected errors detected on cpu 0. Reporting suspended.
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The overwhelming consensus was that the warning is due to a defective or
incorrectly seated memory modules. I have therefore reseated the memory
and the L2 cache modules. I will monitor the workstation over the next
couple of days to see if this has resolved the problem. Otherwise, I will
call out a DEC engineer to identify the defective module.
In addition, Tom Blinn offered a detailed explanation:
> It's a warning. Your system has ECC memory. When the processor detects
> an error in the memory (e.g., during a Bcache fill from memory), and
> finds an error, and it's a correctable error, it corrects the error. It
> reports the correction to the kernel. When there are MANY such
> corrections, the kernel disables logging additional error frames in the
> error log (since some memory can be a bit flaky and have repeated
> errors, and the log would fill up your /var partition if every error
> were logged).
>
> If you want to fix this, you need to get detailed analysis of the error
> frame data (e.g., by a trained service person) to identify the marginal
> memory component (there are no doubt multiple memory SIMMs in the
> system, most likely only one is bad) and then replace the memory. If
> you do this the problem MIGHT go away, if the new memory is more
> reliable than the old memory.
Thank you all once again.
Regards,
Rich
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Received on Thu Oct 29 1998 - 19:19:51 NZDT