bcobco Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 hello.im coming from gnu/linux world, where MCE interrupts can be seen with mcelog and mce related tools. MCEs are usefull to check for bad hardware, to check overclock fails, test bad memorys, ... they are logged in /var/log/... like an usual log. very useful, because most of those fails are not noticeable, till things became more unstable. its a way to see internal hardware problems. obviously the worst mce mean system panic. but before this happen, mcelog is here to tell you that something is wrong. i was wondering about how OSX treats MCE interrupts: if they are handled, if it just shows a kernel panic (like a windows bsod), if they are just loggeg. thanks in advance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Check_Exception Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 It shows like a regular kernel panic. If you forum search "machine check" you can find several examples. If you want to get hardcore you could look into something like this from Hackintosh godfather David Elliott: http://tgwbd.org/svn...unk/README.html Not what you want but I thought it was a pretty cool idea: http://www.projectos...p?showtopic=456 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcobco Posted February 1, 2012 Author Share Posted February 1, 2012 wow thanks for sharing your knowledge Gringo Vermelho. those papers sound interesting. i save this thread, to check that links when i have time enough. thanks! so, mce interrupt results in kernel panic. good t know. i searched for "machine check exception" and no results. but "machine check" shows some things. thanks also for the searching tip peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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