Quoting hajhouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How many of you are using non-ECC (standard) memory on long-uptime > machines? Are you having any problems because of it? Do you think ECC is > worth the premium?
Generally not on a Linux box -- because Linux boxen tend to give off unmistakeable signs when the RAM develops defects, e.g., patterns of kernel panics, segfaulting apps, and/or spontaneous reboots that you quickly learn to recognise as such, if you play around for a while. (I actually _meant_ to keep around the last bad DIMM I had, for testing RAM-testing software -- but forgot, and threw the thing away, dammit.) Most other PeeCee OSes I've played with (NT-based systems, NetWare, to some extent OS/2) are much more oblivious about bad RAM, but Linux tend to throw a tantrum and let you know. -- "The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire' and the computer will say, 'Specify type of goat.'" -- Rich Jeni _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
