Re: DS10L - "processor correctable error"

Bernd Walter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:17:38PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm running FBSD 6.2-stable on DS10L 466MHz with scsi disk.
> 
> I just received
> "Warning: received processor correctable error."
> 
> in dmesg.
> 
> What is the meaning of this warning? Something wrong with hardware?

This is an ECC memory correction.
It is OK to see it once in a while, since even 100% working DRAM has
failures from time to time (called softerror rate) - therefor the need
to have ECC in important systems
If however you see a lot of them it is time to replace the faulty
memory.

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