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