[CentOS] x86_64 EDAC throwing error

Sat Jul 4 09:31:48 UTC 2009
Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com>

Greetings,

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Kurian Thayil<kurianmthayil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We have installed CentOS 5.3 x86_64 in an HP DL585 server with AMD Opteron
> 64 bit processor and 16 GB RAM. The kernel version is 2.6.18-128.el5 . Now
> this has thrown an error message in /var/log/message,
>
> Jul  3 21:41:11 db1 kernel: EDAC k8 MC0: general bus error: participating
> processor(local node origin), time-out(no timeout) memory transaction
> type(generic read), mem or i/o(mem access), cache level(generic)


While I cant throw much light on this particular problem, I have faced
some peoblem as the opeteron based DL 3x5 g5 servers require RAM to be
populated evenly among the CPU sockets

Just my 2p