Missing MCA error messages for bad ECC
"G. Paul Ziemba" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.stable |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
OS: 14.2-STABLE as of 250403
I seem to have at least one bad ECC DIMM and was expecting to see MCA
messages in /var/log/messages or to the console (which I have recently
redirected to /var/log/console.log via syslog.conf:
console.info /var/log/console.log
but I can't find anything in any of my logs. Why am I not seeing them?
Background:
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SCA
CPU: Xeon E-2176G
Chipset: C246
Memory: 4x SK Hynix HMA82GU7CJR8N-VK (16GB ECC)
Bios reports ECC on its startup screen and dmidecode reports
Total Width: 72 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
for each of the dimms.
Amanda started reporting checksum errors on large backup files in its
holding disk. I discovered that a large file (200GB) on any of three
disks on this system yields different sha512sum values every time I
run it on the same file. SMART data looks OK on all disks.
memtest86+ finds three bad spots in memory, at 42G, 47G and 53G. I have
4x16GB dimms installed, so I think that corresponds to two bad dimms.
% sysctl hw.mca
hw.mca.cmc_throttle: 60
hw.mca.force_scan: 0
hw.mca.interval: 300
hw.mca.maxcount: -1
hw.mca.count: 0
hw.mca.erratum383: 0
hw.mca.intel6h_HSD131: 0
hw.mca.amd10h_L1TP: 1
hw.mca.log_corrected: 1
hw.mca.enabled: 1
Thanks for any insights.
--
G. Paul Ziemba
FreeBSD unix:
8:31AM up 2 days, 14:38, 11 users, load averages: 0.71, 0.43, 0.39