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How can I find which memory have CE error?

In /var/log/kern.log: kernel: [13291329.657499] EDAC MC0: 48 CE error on CPU#0Channel#2_DIMM#0 (channel:2 slot:0 page:0x0 offset:0x0 grain:8 syndrome:0x0) This is edac log, one of the memory have ce error. I have read edac doc Dual channels allows…
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'free' and '/proc/meminfo/ report less total memory than 'dmidecode'

We have a server in a colocation centre (a real physical server, not a VM), running 64-bit Debian (uname -r: 3.16.0-4-amd64). /proc/meminforeports about 4 GiB total memory: $ head -n 1 /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 4051692 kB free reports the same…
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Why does the "free" command and "dmidecode" show different values for RAM?

I've got a CentOS 5.10 (32-bit) server running on VMWare. It's allocated 4 GB of RAM. If I run dmidecode -t 17 | grep Size | grep MB I see: Size: 4096 MB Yet when I run free, I see: total used free shared buffers…
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how to find which memory stick error

There is a Inspur SA5212SC server involve memory error. In dmesg output I got some error: {16}[Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 1 {16}[Hardware Error]: APEI generic hardware error status {16}[Hardware Error]:…
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dmidecode /dev/mem: mmap: Operation not permitted

I am trying to get my BIOS firmware version, and memory info using dmidecode. I am connected to the server through ssh as a root user. We recently just started moving our servers from Debian 6.0, to Ubuntu 12.4 LTS. Is there another way to get the…
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Sun Fire V40z, big gap between memory reported by dmidecode and what the Linux kernel sees

I'm looking after a V40z (a loaner), running RHEL 4.8 (no, I can't update it, it's a loaner) that according to dmidecode has 8 DIMMs of 2048M each, which makes for 16GB RAM as far as I'm concerned. The kernel, however, reports the total memory to…
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What does "Status: Populated, idle" in dmidecode output mean?

I have a dual-xeon HP ProLiant DL160 Gen8 server that I'm in the process of setting up, running CentOS 7, and I noticed in my dmidecode output that the second processor is listed as Populated, idle instead of Populated, enabled. What does it…
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Getting IPMI SMB (I2C SMBus SSIF) to work on kernel 3.2

I've got one old server into my hands, and I'm trying to get IPMI to work. Server board is SE7520JR2 (SE7520JR22S, SE7520JR22.86B.P.08.10.0081.051820051126) $ dmidecode -t 38 # dmidecode 2.11 SMBIOS 2.3 present. Handle 0x0038, DMI type 38, 18…
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Check RAM speed on virtual machine

On a bare metal server, I'm able to get the RAM speed by running: dmidecode --type 17 Speed: 2400 MHz Configured Clock Speed: 2400 MHz On a virtual machine though, the output is always the same: Speed: Unknown Configured Memory Speed:…
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dmidecode uuid is different from Vmware esxi server

I have a query related to dmidecode uuid. In our product we are using dmidecode uuid try to match with ESXI vmware uuid of the same node. ESXI is providing the UUID as first three fields as big endian format. But in dmidecode for smbios version 2.6…
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How does one get the system UUID from a server's BMC?

I need the uuid of some systems for ipxe booting purposes.. The problem is that these systems are powered off with no OS on them. I could power them on, but it would do me little good since they have no OS installed. I know that the uuid of a…
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Understanding Intel HTT

System 1: Notebook Detect the installed CPU: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" | head -1 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz The data sheet says: no. of Cores 2 no. of Threads 4 Detect Cores and Threads: $ sudo dmidecode…
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dmidecode weird total/data width

I am getting strange outputs from my workstation, which has ECC RAM. Supposedly, from what I read, the data width should be at 64 bits and the total width at 72. But... data width shows as 64 and total width as 128. Is this a problem with my…
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How to find L1, L1i, L1d cache from dmidecode output?

How to find L1 , L1d, L1i cache from dmidecode output ? (NOTE: dmidecode file is from different server for which I do not have access, So I can not run lscpu command to find the same) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cat dmi.txt | grep -i core …
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BIOS/OS reporting different memory to dmidecode

I have a SuperMicro server in production with 8x 16GB dual rank DDR3 ECC registered sticks installed (128GB). Had a bunch of ECC errors on one stick one day that caused issues for a few minutes plus the odd one every now and then on a different…
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