Re: nmi errors?

[Robert L. Harris]

We ran "memtest" on the machine over the weekend and it completed 3
times without any problems.  Know a better or different test?


Thus spake Richard B. Johnson (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):

> 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.
> 

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