On 2/14/2011 9:53 AM, Rob Kampen wrote:
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> This system was initially commissioned after burn in, in late 2004 - An
> Intel mb. It started with RH9, then went FC3, then CentOS5.
> As mentioned the ECC memory has warned me when things are not well and
> allowed me to take remedial action before anything
> impacted my data. It still does great work six years later. For some
> reason, each time I have shifted it, we started getting these errors.
> It may be accumulated dust and dirt - so I always clean everything while
> it is down. Re-seating the RAM after cleaning the contacts and blowing
> out the dust has always worked. So for me, getting a server grade mb
> with ECC RAM is a great investment and worth the slight extra cost, not
> to mention that CentOS seems to have the drivers and modules in place
> for these mb.
I've seen that too, where moving a server would unseat RAM just enough
to cause occasional crashes - and the crashes are better than undetected
data/file errors. We mostly use IBM servers that have some diagnostic
lights in the front to make the problem obvious.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com