[wellylug] hardware errors

[Richard Hector]

On 11/06/14 20:29, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> I don't believe it's a dimm issue (or it's not handled by ECC) as my
> experience is that ECC reported errors are much noisier and clearly
> marked as ECC.

Ok, cool.

> By the looks of it the issue is either L3 cache or northbridge memory
> bus issue.  It could also be a kernel bug.  Have you recently updated
> the kernel?

Yes, I just updated from squeeze to wheezy. The machine is running 
memtest86+ atm so I can't check what specific version; I'll see if 
there's a new kernel when I bring it back up.

>  If memtest doesn't pick it up as a ram issue then it seems
> that the cpu is implicated.  You could try installing cpuburn and run
> some load tests with that.

Hmm, ok, thanks.

> What are the hardware specs of this machine?

It's a Sun Fire X2100 M2 - dual core opteron 1218, 2600MHz with 4G of RAM

Thanks,

Richard