[Info-vax] Are errors on PEA0: dangerous?

[Joukj]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> As I recently mentioned here, after using LANCP to move from 10 Mb/s HD 
> to 100 Mb/s FD on two PWS in my cluster, the slowly rising (few errors 
> per day) error count on PEA0: (and the somewhat lower number on the SCSI 
> disks) on an XP1000 in the cluster, which has always had 100 Mb/s and 
> FD, stopped rising, completely.  However, since then PEA0: on the two 
> PWS have been rising slowly as well (perhaps a bit more quickly than on 
> the XP1000).
> 
> How dangerous are errors on PEA0:?
no idea, but on my AXP-cluster (1 bootmember & 5 satelites) I see a few 
of those errors per day over the last 15 years. The cluster seems to run 
normally. I have no idea if this causes a performance penalty (I have 
nothing to to make a comparison)

> 
> Any idea what causes this?
What I see is that the nodes with the most network traffic get the most 
errors.
Probably some "reoverable" communication errors were trapped.
ANAL/ERR never gave me more "insight"

                        Jouk