Re: [x86_64] how worried should I be about MCEs?

[Andy Lutomirski]

bert hubert wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 01:16:49PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> > Every now and then, after rebooting, the kernel notices some MCEs. 
> > Should I be worried about this?
>
>
> If these reports are true, they would be worrying. But I find them a bit
> hard to believe - the bit combinations don't appear to make sense.

True.

> I have an AMD64 machine which logs 'MCE reported' every once in a while but
> otherwise functions perfectly and I haven't yet coaxed it into telling me
> the content of the errors.
>
> Might there be a bug here? How did you create this log?

This is from mcelog 0.3, dumped with a daily cron job to 
/var/log/mcelog.  I think it came from 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 (which should be 
essentially 2.6.11.7).

The machine is Athlon 64 3200+ (754), on an MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R, running a 
moderately old BIOS but one that has erratum #93 (or whatever it was) fixed.

Anything I should attach to provide more info?

I just upgraded to mcelog-0.4, but at this rate I don't expect a new 
dump for awhile.

Thanks,
Andy
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