Re: Linux 2.6.10-ac1

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Friday 31 December 2004 04:57, Jan Dittmer wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 30 December 2004 18:38, Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the reply Alan, I appreciate it.
>>
>>>On Iau, 2004-12-30 at 05:05, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>some sort of an error message that looks like it may be memory
>>>>related.  There's a pair of half giggers in here, running at 333
>>>>fsb, but they are supposedly rated for a 400 mhz fsb. Thats
>>>>presumably because I have turned on the MCE stuffs.
>>>
>>>MCE's generally come from the processor. To decode it you need to
>>>know what CPU and then get the manuals out and decode the bits.
>
>Here is a tool for it: (parsemce.c)
>
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/tools/
>
>Though I do not know for which processors it is supposed to work.
>
>Jan

Well, I've played with it some, but it doesn't seem to see the MCE 
events that are in fact in /var/log/messages.
[root@coyote root]# parsemce -i </var/log/messages
This file contains no MCE dump
[root@coyote root]# parsemce -f /var/log/messages
This file contains no MCE dump

If I feed it the lines with the numbers it reports something about an 
invalid IP on restart.

[root@coyote root]# parsemce -e Bank 2: d40040000000017a -b Bank 2: -s 
d40040000000017a
Status: (ba) Error IP valid
Restart IP invalid.

The exact same output is obtained from the Bank 1 message & numbers 
too.

So I think I do not know how to use it.  Or the severeity of the 
report isn't high enough.  The logfile is currently about 1.27 megs 
but that doesn't seem to be a problem.  I haven't seen any more of 
them since I turned off the nonfatal exceptions in .config.  The 
logfile has several hundred K of samba errors from the plain 2.6.10 
kernel.

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