Re: [gentoo-dev] Major MCE problem with SMP on Gentoo kernels

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 15:38, Kevin wrote:
> Ok.  Thanks for the suggestion.  But what about this: Dell has a utility 
> partition and some programs for doing exhaustive testing of all the 
> hardware in the server.  If I run the most thorough set of tests 
> available in this utility partition and I get a clean bill of health, 
> is that a reliable indication that there are no hardware problems?  Or 
> does memtest86 do testing that's more exhaustive than most such utility 
> suites?

I think the Dell suite would be more extensive.

> If the utility partition testing says all is well (I've done it several 
> times in the last month or so, though maybe not the most extensive 
> tests), what's the next place to look for an explanation of why this 
> MCE is happening in Gentoo but not in SuSE?

Are you sure that it isn't MCE *causing* these problems?  Have you tried
turning it off and seeing if you still have the same kinds of problems?

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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