Re: nmi errors?

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 23:34, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> We ran "memtest" on the machine over the weekend and it completed 3
> times without any problems.  Know a better or different test?
> 

You might try to enable all the tests, addresses and set the
cache to be always on in memtest.  Typical keys pressed is:

  c - 1 - 2 - 2 - 3 - 3 - 3

Another is goldmemory, which is fairly the same in default setup
as memtest with above config, but shareware, not gpl.

> 
> Thus spake Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com):
> 
> > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me what this is?
> > >
> > > 16:00:09 mailserver kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31.
> > > 16:00:09 mailserver kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> > > 16:00:09 mailserver kernel: Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> > > 16:00:34 mailserver kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21.
> > > 16:00:34 mailserver kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> > >
> > > A coworker put a script on a server which loads up quite afew arrays
> > > with pre-set values and then compares the values against arrays.  As soon as he
> > > kicked off the script I got alot of these in my log files.  Not much longer and the
> > > machine crashed hard.
> > >
> > 
> > Possible bad RAM.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Dick Johnson
> > Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (794.73 BogoMips).
> >             Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
> > 
> 
> :wq!
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