Bug 177199

Summary: mcelog should be run much more frequently than daily
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dan Hollis <goemon>
Component: mcelogAssignee: Jon Masters <jcm>
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Description Dan Hollis 2006-01-07 08:18:37 UTC 
Description of problem:
mcelog should be run much more frequently than daily.

machine checks are usually signs of extreme hardware badness and imminent doom.

running mcelog daily pretty much guarantees your /var/log/mcelog will be empty
as the machine will have crashed long before mcelog ever had a chance to run
(from direct experience, on x86_64).

i would recommend hourly at a _minimum_.

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ideally, mcelog should sit with /dev/mcelog open and decode the machine checks
as they come in.
Comment 1 Dave Jones 2006-05-17 20:50:17 UTC 
changed to hourly in the next update.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2006-09-22 02:12:06 UTC 
Closing bugs in MODIFIED state from prior Fedora releases. If this bug persists
in a current Fedora release (such as Fedora Core 5 or later), please reopen and
set the version appropriately.