Re: ECC memory driver in FreeBSD 10?

Nikolay Denev wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:48 PM, O. Hartmann wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a way to force FreeBSD 10 to maintain/watch ECC errors
>> reported by UEFI (or BIOS).
>> Since ECC is said to be essential for server systems both in buisness
>> and science and I do not question this, I was wondering if I can not
>> report ECC errors via a watchdog or UEFI (ACPI?) report to syslog
>> facility on FreeBSD.
>> FreeBSD is supposed to be a server operating system, as far as I know,
>> so I believe there must be something which didn't have revealed itself
>> to me, yet.

>
> If the hardware supports it, such errors should be logged as MCEs (Machine Check Exceptions).
> I can say for sure it works pretty well with Dell servers, as I had  one with failing RAM module, and
> it reported the corrected ECC errors in dmesg.

Memory ECC errors are logged in to messages and you can decode it by 
sysutils/mcelog. I did it in the past on one of our Sun Fire X2100 M2 
with FreeBSD 8.x.

Miroslav Lachman
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