[rescue] Now what, SGI Challenge L Department

[Kevin Loch]

Carl R. Friend wrote:
>    On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> 
> 
>>OK, so I'm not getting enough grief from the Indigo2 ...
> 
> 
>    Where there's a little, there's always more.  This seems to
> be a corrolary to collecting, and running (mostly running) old
> iron.
> 
> 
>>I'm getting memory errors on my Challenge L.  So far, there's not much of a
>>pattern, and none have been uncorrectible.  I'm getting one every few days.
>>A while back,I saw one in the log and started filtering for them; since
>>then, it seems to have one every 3 to 5 days:
>>
>>12-17-03: Single Bit Error on physical addr. 0x582d6180, in slot 2 leaf 1
>>bank 7 was a read transient
> 
> 
>    Uh, Shel, are you sitting atop a hoard of radioactive bits?
> Alpha radiation, as well as gamma, is known to cause drop-outs.
> 
> 

It's probably not related, but I can see that the geomagnetic field has
been unsettled for the past day or so:

http://n3kl.org/sun/images/noaa_kp_3d.gif

KL