Machine check exception (Debian Etch)

[Dave Ewart]

We have an R905 with four quad-core CPUs and 128GB RAM (32 4GB sticks).
It runs Debian Etch.  A machine check exception was reported and decoded
as follows:

    $ sudo mcelog --ascii --k8
     MCE 0
     HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
     Please contact your hardware vendor
     CPU 3 BANK 4 TSC 32559b687fb05 
     MISC e00c0ffe01000000 ADDR 1019aa6cc4 
     STATUS 9c034480011c017b MCGSTATUS 0

     MCE 0
     HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
     Please contact your hardware vendor
     HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
     Please contact your hardware vendor
     CPU 3 0 data cache TSC 32559b687fb05
     MISC e00c0ffe01000000 
      Data cache ECC error (syndrome 6)
           bit39 = res7
           bit42 = res10
           bit46 = corrected ecc error
           bit59 = misc error valid
      memory/cache error 'evict mem transaction, generic transaction, level generic'
     STATUS 9c034480011c017b MCGSTATUS 0

We have the Debian-packaged OMSA installed - it reported nothing for
this incident, which happened just once.

What's going on here?  Is this an ECC error in RAM which was corrected,
or something else?

If it's RAM-related, identifying the errant RAM stick will be easier if
I know what 'CPU 3' means.  Is it:

(a) the fourth core on the first CPU (counting each of the
16 cores from 0 to 15), or 

(b) is it the fourth CPU (counting only physical CPUs from 0 to 3)?

Any comments appreciated.

Thanks,

Dave.
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Dave Ewart
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University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK
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