On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Michael Stumpf wrote:
Sure it's a FAQ. It's probably even documented. And, I know it, but it
still surprised me. Such is life:
2/3 sticks of perfectly good ECC ram in an old server class p3 board
apparently have gone bad. Result? Random lockups/reboots with nothing in
the system logs to even lend a clue.
Memtest86 showed one problem immediately, and after some time, exposed some
more. Remove the bad memory and it works fine.
Is there some daemon that can more actively monitor memory function? I must
have had this problem for months, but with sputtering hard drives that were
slowly dying and causing very similar problems, this diagnosis got muddled.
1. Run memtest if you experience instability.
2. Use a system that supports ecc and enable it in bios, that way you are
likely to get a proper machine fault instead of lockups etc.
Note though, that it is very common for bugs in these systems, our last 3
clusters over the last 4 years have all had errata on bios showing ecc to
be enabled but not actually having it enabled.
/Mattias Wadenstein
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