Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:45:02 +0200 | From | Felix von Leitner <> | Subject | MCEs |
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I am getting frequent MCEs on my Linux desktop, when I am encoding TV recordings to H.264 using mencoder. It is a dual core box, I am using 2.6.27 (but have had the problem for a while now).
This is the kind of MCE that freezes the box and causes a panic. The trace does not end up in syslog. I found a program called mcelog which I am supposed to call regularly from cron, but how can that help me when the first MCE I get insta-panics the box?
Now the most common causes for MCEs are apparently heat issues and bad memory. I can rule out both. Could this be an artifact of some bad ACPI tables?
How do you debug this kind of problem?
Thanks,
Felix
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