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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Dazed and Confused
Date: 9 Dec 2002 11:19:48 -0800
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.42.0212061202230.7770-100000@egg>
By author:    Greg Boyce <gboyce@rakis.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Actually, this does leave one question still:  How serious is the problem?
> How much would you trust a machine reporting these errors?  Most of the
> machines are just performing DNS and web service (although with a pretty
> high load).  The processes on the machine are are cpu and memory
> intensive, but there is no critical data stored on most of the machines.
> 
> Are the machines likely to give us problems with crashing and data
> corruption, or would it be safe to ignore the problem unless we started
> noticing odd behavior?
> 

The fact that you're seeing the error means data corruption has
already occurred.

	-hpa
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