RE: pyxis_machine_check ---- strange message!
We will try wiggling our cards to see what happens.
> I would say that this is the inb(0x804) instruction that is provoking
> the machine check failure because it show on the PCI bus as a read to
> location 800804 instead of location 000804 (one bit change).
> I have already seen exactly the same bug on a lx164 with the bit at
> the same place that was wrong (but that was while accessing a network
> card, the behaviour was debugged with a logic analyser at the time
> and I was told that given its history it was not unlikely to be a bug
> in the pyxis chipset that show up sometimes.
>
> Or maybe you want to check that all your cards are properly seated.
> Is it a higly loaded machine? How often do you get the error message?
> and does the you need to reboot the machien after the error?
The messages roughly correspond to a molecular dynamics programme we have
started running this past week. The load hovers around 1. There was one
incident where a reboot was necessary since ttys started respawning too fast
(perhaps this is unrelated).
Thanks again for your help.
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