On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:11:36AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Long Wind <[email protected]> wrote: > > linux is stable, or is it? > > Sure, but there is difference between stable and "never crashes, > ever". Namely one is a real thing, and the other does not and cannot > exist, it is purely theoretical. > > Even with a provably correct program (and we cannot prove anything so > complex as a full featured OS kernel, much less desktop, etc), > hardware could fail in one way or another... a cosmic ray could hit a > memory cell or a cpu transistor, and it could crash. You can add error > handling to try to deal with all sorts of errors but you can't catch > everything, and the error handling code has bugs of its own.
Not to hijack the thread, but I was thinking about this and desktop systems. That is, whether folks use ECC RAM for their desktops. Also, how many crashes might be attributed to RAM errors. I can't find the link, but I once came a across a Google study that claimed it happens a lot more often than not. Though, one would need to buy or currently be using a motherboard that supports ECC. I generally use Tyan boards and most have supported ECC RAM. Personally, I don't see the cost as prohibitive as I only upgrade maybe once every 5-8 years. Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130313183525.GA2529@phobos
