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Date: 11 Aug 2003 00:56:25 +0200
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>
To: Simon Garner <sgarner@expio.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: MSI K8D-Master - GART error 3
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:43:57AM +1200, Simon Garner wrote:
> These suggest it's just reporting ECC corrections. Why would it do this

Yep. You have faulty DIMMs, consider replacing them.

> exactly every 30 seconds? (or is that just the reporting interval?)

The interval timer checking for "silent" MCEs runs every 30s.

You can change that by booting with mce=<number>   then it will run 
each number seconds. 0 should turn it off.

-Andi