Bug#630552: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: K8 ECC error

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Dario,

Dario Minnucci wrote:

> I've being configuring a new server for a couple of days now, and
> suddenly today I've started being flooded with this message at the
> console.
>
> Don't know if this is a clue but this message triggered while I was
> making a tarball from a mounted disk a while ago and appears
> randomly since then.
>
> I've rebooted the server was able to trigger again the message by
> re-running the tar command.

The most useful thing you can try to track this down is swapping out
the RAM and seeing if the errors go away.

See http://buttersideup.com/edacwiki/WhyAmIgettingMemoryErrors

I wish I had a better suggestion.  Thanks and good luck.