[olug] Dazed and Confused Log message

[ktb]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:15:13PM -0600, Mike Hostetler wrote:
> I love Linux log messages.  Sometimes they can make you laugh when bad
> things are happening.  
> 
> For example, a log message from yesterday:
> October 30 16:05:29 tardis Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> October 30 16:05:29 tardis You probably have a hardware problem with your
> RAM chips
> 
> (yes, I know what the problem is, even though the RAM checks out fine via
> memtest86)

Software mem checkers aren't that reliable.  I usually run "bad" memory
in my computers till I start experiencing problems when compiling code.
That is of course on non crit systems.
kent  

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