From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] pineview atom
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:14:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9001.1266527667@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1ae15d2c80dc5c8dbbdc28ee274f29d@coraid.com>
> i have been running a amd64 machine as a cpu server
> for 2 years. it uses standard ddr2 memory. i have not
> seen any unexplained crashes or reboots during this time.
>
> at work, i have been running 5 un-ecc'd machines for
> 3 years. also no unexplained crahses or reboots.
>
> how could this be if i would expect 240 + 1825 bit errors?
There is no mechanism which directly translates bit flips
to crashes! The bad case is actually a corruption which
does *not* cause a crash, but is written to disk. How
often do you check your venti's SHA-1 hashes?
Also, according to the data cited, machines do differ.
Dave Eckhardt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-18 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-18 16:56 erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 18:26 ` matt
2010-02-18 18:31 ` ron minnich
2010-02-18 18:43 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-02-18 20:04 ` David Leimbach
2010-02-18 18:39 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 20:46 ` ron minnich
2010-02-18 21:03 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 21:14 ` Dave Eckhardt [this message]
2010-02-18 22:38 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 23:08 ` roger peppe
2010-02-18 23:12 ` Adrian Tritschler
2010-02-18 23:27 ` ron minnich
2010-02-19 21:59 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-02-20 22:17 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-21 19:46 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-03-05 10:01 ` hugh
2010-03-05 17:32 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-02-18 18:43 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-03-08 17:57 ` Albert Skye
2010-03-08 19:06 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-08 19:47 ` Jonas Amoson
2010-03-08 20:11 ` erik quanstrom
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