Quoting Bill Broadley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My point is that while ECC isn't really necessary to help diagnose bad > dimms with linux because the behavior of linux makes it readily apparent > that you have some serious problem. ECC is necessary to improve uptimes > if you want to survive the random bit flips which can occur at the > mentioned 1 bit per GB per month.
You have a small point, but only for trivial values of "survive": The lion's share of those bit flips will turn out to be harmless for any of sundry reasons. (I'd specualate that some non-zero percentage of prematurely deceased httpd instances owed to that, for example -- but those just respawn.) > So if you have a few GB around, and want to have multi-month uptimes > without corruptions of data and possibly your filesystem get ECC > memory. If that were a concern meriting real-world concern in situations where the RAM _doesn't_ give unmistakeable signs of defects, my data would have gone to mush a decade ago. Frankly, HD defects are a many orders of magnitude more significant threat. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
