[wplug] deciphering machine check exceptions

[Eli Heady]

On Friday 13 July 2007 04:24:51 am Zach wrote:
> On 7/12/07, Alheid, Gregory <alheidgj at upmc.edu> wrote:
> > At worst, not knowing the procedure used to install the CPU
> > and memory there may be ESD damage, which may or may not
> > continue to get errors.
>
> ESD == electro static discharge?
>
> This mcelog program is it like memtest86?
>
> Zach

mcelog[1] is the tool needed to read machine check exception messages from the 
kernel buffer in x86-64 kernels since 2.6.4. AFAICT, the kernel maintains a 
binary log of low-level hardware malfunctions, but no longer decodes and 
prints this data to the system logs.


[1] ftp://ftp.x86-64.org/pub/linux/tools/mcelog/

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Eli Heady
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SEEGRID Corporation
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