EDAC error

[Rick Stevens]

Brent Snow, Mr. wrote:
> Hi All,
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>             I am having a problem with a new Dell PowerEdge 1900 Server 
> running Fedora 8.
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>             The System setup is as follows:
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>             2 – Xeon  E5310 (Quad-Core 1.6 GHz) processors
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>             16 GB of RAM, I SATA 80 GB HDD.
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>             The Error is as follows: EDAC i5000 MC0: nonfatal errors 
> found 0=800.
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>             The system runs very very slow (I have a p3 that is faster 
> then this system is).
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>             I have installed Windows 2003 Server X_64 and it runs very 
> very quick.
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>             There are no errors under Windows, and there are no errors 
> reported by Dell’s diagnostic tools.
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>             I have run Memtest86+ (for 96 hours) and there are no errors 
> detected there as well.
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>             As soon as I install Fedora 8, the errors show back up and 
> the system just bogs down.
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>             I have tried aliasing the EDAC files thinking that this may 
> be the problem, but all that did was stop the log messages.
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>             I have noticed that it seems that each of the processors 
> peaks at 100% for 30 seconds or so and then it will move to another CPU, 
> for 30 seconds, etc.
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>             I am at a loss on this one, and Google has not been able to 
> provide any answers, so I was hoping that someone else has experienced this.

Have you run "top" to see what process is sucking up the CPU power?  In
my case, I made the mistake of running pcscd and that ate a LOT of CPU.
A quick "service pcscd stop" restored things to normal.

Before pcscd fans get up in arms, I don't plan to have smartcards on my
systems at this time.  If I do, then I'll investigate it further.  For
now, my problem is solved.
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