I'm getting a lot of machine check exception errors in dmesg on my hosted server. Running mcelog I get:
# mcelog HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem! Please contact your hardware vendor MCE 0 CPU 0 4 northbridge TSC 5ab2d0c67592a MISC c008001901000000 ADDR a2d6e1f0 Northbridge RAM Chipkill ECC error Chipkill ECC syndrome = 7b58 bit40 = error found by scrub bit46 = corrected ecc error bit59 = misc error valid bus error 'local node response, request didn't time out generic read mem transaction memory access, level generic' STATUS 9c2c41007b080a13 MCGSTATUS 0 MCGCAP c008001a01000000 SOCKETID 7b080a13 HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem! Please contact your hardware vendor MCE 1 CPU 0 4 northbridge TSC 5aee3f082740a MISC c008001a01000000 ADDR a2d6e1f0 Northbridge RAM Chipkill ECC error Chipkill ECC syndrome = 7b58 bit46 = corrected ecc error bit59 = misc error valid bus error 'local node response, request didn't time out generic read mem transaction memory access, level generic' STATUS 9c2c40007b080a13 MCGSTATUS 0 SOCKETID 0 Should I just contact the hosting company? Can anyone give me more info on what this means? Bad memory? - Grant