Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:26:26 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: M.Hirsch@gmx.de, M.Hirsch@hirsch.it Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ... Message-ID: <E1Fv0TK-000Pee-3t@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <44A0650C.7020806@gmx.de>
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> I am not looking for workarounds, like ECC. I want the box to break > immediately once any single component goes wrong... Uh, that *is* what ECC does (or can do). Without ECC your broken hardware continues to run un-noticed. With ECC you can either make it break immediatley, or log an error or continue to run. Stop thinking of ECC as error correction and start thinking of it as error detection. No ECC gives you no way to detect failing memory. -pete.
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