Quoting Bill Broadley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Rick Moen wrote: > > A bad bit in memory, if indicative of a physical defect, will quickly > > manifest unmistakeably on Linux in the manner I described. If not thus > > indicative, (from empirical observation over a long period of time:) > > it's extremely unlikely to have detectable long-term consequences. > > You speculate that it contributes to premature httpd deaths but is > undetectable long term?
I didn't think what I was saying was that difficult to follow, but here is what I said, again: "I'd speculate that some non-zero percentage of prematurely deceased httpd instances owed to that...." I figure that possibly (i.e., speculate that) some quite small number of such events ultimately owe to uncorrected single-bit memory errors that are not associated with actually bad RAM -- but, effectively, it's way down in the noise of undiagnosable oddities. > $10 a dimm requires you to "pay through the node" and the "wealth of > midas"? If you assumed I was endorsing your figure, you assumed wrong. ;-> Ironically, the most recent RAM I purchased _was_ ECC, because it was a gig for the Intel L440GX+ "Lancewood" motherboard in my old VA Linux Systems model 2230 server. However, let's talk about the HP ProLiant 380 I was working on recently: 128 MB ECC Registered is $42 at SA Technologies, Inc. (where I would buy such things by preference). Without ECC, $32. ECC thus exacts a 31% premium in that case. Now, would I pay that premium? I might, or I might put the money somewhere else, where it's more likely to yield significant benefit. (In 2007, I'd actually try not to drop cash on a 800MHz PIII that I didn't dearly love, but five years ago might have been different.) Anyhow, I see that you go on in the same vein at rather great length, and I hope that my point was actually abundantly clear to most people, which will have to suffice. So, I bid you adieu at this point. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
