Date: 30 Dec 1999 01:47:36 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ECC RAM useless with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <84ea38$1dk9$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <8070C3A4E99ED211A63200105A19B99B317471@mail.edifecs.com> <19991228215756.A94267@panzer.kdm.org> <386A4B9D.A9F89749@echidna.com>
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In article <386A4B9D.A9F89749@echidna.com>, > Some memory errors are transient, radiation-induced events. The > likelihood of such errors is increased by the decreasing storage > cell charge employed with increasing memory density. This problem > will be more serious at high altitude because of increased cosmic > radiation. [...] Such errors are not memory chip problems per se, > and could be a good reason to enable ECC when available. ISTR recall that c't magazine examined that question some time ago and came to the conclusion that radiation-induced errors are absurdly rare (one each ten years or so?) compared to rather more earthly problems. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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