On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:13:31, Soham Chakraborty wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Dean S. Messing <deanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Soham Chakraborty wrote. <snip> > > > Since you have a correctable error, it shouldn't be any problem with the > > > memory module. > > > > Thanks! But now I'm curious: Is the edac module running an entire > > memory check each time it writes this error out? If not, how is it > > detecting this? Is the kernel simply doing this parity check on each > > r/w? > > > > Also, if it's not a problem with the memory module, what might it be a > > problem with? This just started happening night before last. The error > > messages don't appear in any previous "messages" files. > > > I am really not sure about how internally it works. If no one answers, I > will try to gather some information. Also, can you do a lsmod and grep with > edac. <snip> That a very kind offer, but please don't spend your time (unless you really want to :-) I was just curious. I'm much more interested to understand what is the root cause of the error messags since you said that it's not a problem with the memory module. Here's the `lsmod' you requested: ==>lsmod | grep edac i5000_edac 8164 0 edac_core 40186 3 i5000_edac Dean -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
