Matt Ingenthron's Stream of Consciousness

Monday July 14, 2008

When a failure is cool

The main reason this failure is cool is because it's not my box, I was just borrowing it. In the process, I was able to see how the Solaris FMA stuff works on Intel systems:

# fmadm faulty
--------------- ------------------------------------  -------------- ---------
TIME            EVENT-ID                              MSG-ID         SEVERITY
--------------- ------------------------------------  -------------- ---------
Jun 20 12:07:33 134d04c5-1961-ec12-bfb9-dd97668f42ca  INTEL-8001-43  Critical 

Fault class : fault.cpu.intel.nb.ie
Affects     : hc:///motherboard=0
                  degraded but still in service
FRU         : "MB" (hc:///component=motherboard)

Description : Northbridge has detected an internal error  Refer to
              http://sun.com/msg/INTEL-8001-43 for more information.

Response    : System panic or reset by BIOS

Impact      : System may be unexpectedly reset

Action      : Replace motherboard

It'll remember this across reboots, report with a human readable message, etc.

Tuesday July 01, 2008

Faban at LA JUG

Tonight (July 1, 2008) I will be speaking at the LA JUG on the Open Source project Faban. Faban is a benchmark harness/framework for developing and executing performance benchmarks against a variety of targets.

If you're interested in joining, please have a look at the LA JUG website.