Paul Vixie <[email protected]> writes: > i'm more inclined to blame the heavy solar wind this month and to assume > that chinanet's routers don't use ECC on the RAM containing their RIBs and > that chinanet's router jockeys are in quite a sweat about this bad publicity. > -- > Paul Vixie > KI6YSY
That is likely to be an increasing problem in upcoming months/years. Solar cycle 24 started in August '09; we're ramping up on the way out of a more serious than usual sunspot minimum. We've seen great increases in CPU and memory speeds as well as disk densities since the last maximum (March 2000). Speccing ECC memory is a reasonable start, but this sort of thing has been a problem in the past (anyone remember the Sun UltraSPARC CPUs that had problems last time around?) and will no doubt bite us again. Rob Seastrom, AI4UC
