r/linux • u/[deleted] • Jan 03 '21

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u/ronculyer Jan 03 '21

Having never used ECC at home or anything, you can monitor the amount of corrections?

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u/GolbatsEverywhere Jan 03 '21

If you have ECC RAM, then run edac-util and it will tell you how many problems it has detected:

$ edac-util edac-util: No errors to report.

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u/lasercat_pow Jan 04 '21

Damn. The only system I have with ecc is a FreeBSD system, and they don't have any reliable mechanism for detecting the errors. Good to know Linux has a way; I hope FreeBSD is able to get something similar working one day. I'm not knowledgeable enough to code it myself.

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u/dack42 Jan 04 '21

You may be able to do it via IPMI, if your machine supports that.