linux-kernel - Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

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Message-ID: <20141119215814.GA4613@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:58:14 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 04:47:43PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> This box is usually pretty solid, but it's been in service as a 24/7
> fuzzing box for over a year now, so it's not outside the realm of
> possibility that this could all be a hardware fault if some memory
> has gone bad or the like.

You could grep old logs for "Hardware Error" and the usual suspects
coming from MCE/EDAC. Also /var/log/mcelog or something like that,
depending on what's running on that box.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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