"Non-Fatal Error DRAM Controller" in log

[Adam Funk]

On 2013-01-16, Steve Flynn wrote:

> On 16 January 2013 10:09, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>> On one of my machines running Ubuntu 12.04, logcheck keeps throwing
>> out stuff like the following at seemingly random times:
>>
>> [135573.308051] EDAC e752x: Non-Fatal Error DRAM Controller
>> [135573.308057] EDAC e752x: Non-Fatal Error DRAM Controller
>> [135573.308065] EDAC MC0: CE page 0x48142, offset 0x980, grain 4096, syndrome 0x682, row 2, channel 0, label "": e752x CE
>
> The EDAC driver used to be hideously noisy (far worse than you're
> seeing here), and it was quietened down quite a bit several years ago.
> Still you're seeing quite a bit of action here, so I'd suggest the
> following:
>
> 0. Pull and reseat all of your RAM.
>
> 1. Run a memtest for several hours, hopefully you'll get zero errors
> (as these errors you're seeing are all Correctable Errors (CE). Any
> errors means bad RAM.
>
> 2. Keep and eye on logcheck for a few hours - hopefully they go away.
> If they don't, and everything keeps on ticking as normal, I'd ignore
> them in logcheck.

Thanks for the advice!  I don't plan to have physical access to that
machine for a while, but I'll come back & post the results when I do.