[Beowulf] power usage, Intel 5160 vs. AMD 2216

[John Hearns]

Joe Landman wrote:
> 
>> a very interesting one.  I wonder how many people have scrubbing 
>> turned on in their cluster, and how many use mcelog to monitor the ECC 
>> rate.  
> 
> We do on clusters we ship/build.  I specifically run a tests to flesh 
> out the memory errors.  Sadly, memtest86 only gets the "obvious" errors, 
>

Backing up what Joe says, we very often ask customers to send us mcelog 
when they report hardware problems.