Re: nmi errors?

From: Richard B. Johnson
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 16:26:50 EST


On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:

>
>
> Can anyone tell me what this is?
>
> 16:00:09 mailserver kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31.
> 16:00:09 mailserver kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> 16:00:09 mailserver kernel: Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> 16:00:34 mailserver kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21.
> 16:00:34 mailserver kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>
> A coworker put a script on a server which loads up quite afew arrays
> with pre-set values and then compares the values against arrays. As soon as he
> kicked off the script I got alot of these in my log files. Not much longer and the
> machine crashed hard.
>

Possible bad RAM.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (794.73 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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