Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: nmi errors? | From | Martin Schlemmer <> | Date | 04 Sep 2003 17:11:33 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 23:34, Robert L. Harris wrote: > We ran "memtest" on the machine over the weekend and it completed 3 > times without any problems. Know a better or different test? >
You might try to enable all the tests, addresses and set the cache to be always on in memtest. Typical keys pressed is:
c - 1 - 2 - 2 - 3 - 3 - 3
Another is goldmemory, which is fairly the same in default setup as memtest with above config, but shareware, not gpl.
> > Thus spake Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com): > > > 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. > > > > :wq! > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert L. Harris | GPG Key ID: E344DA3B > @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu > DISCLAIMER: > These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. > > Life is not a destination, it's a journey. > Microsoft produces 15 car pileups on the highway. > Don't stop traffic to stand and gawk at the tragedy. -- Martin Schlemmer
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