>From "M.Hirsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:38:35AM +0200: > Sticks don't just break on a single bit. From my experience, a stick > that's got any problems at all, will cause even more trouble soon... > If a hardware problem isn't worth panick'ing, what else is? > (don't answer this one please, this was a rhetorical question - to those > who didn't get it...) As has been mentioned by other people already: this position is severely ahistorical. ECC has traditionally been motivated by a desire to 1) provide reliable computing operations 2) ensure high-availability (uptime)
The very originating purpose of ECC was to keep the computer going in the face of an alpha particle strike. Alpha particles flip *single* bits. ECC was never intended to detect crummy, failing hardware: that's a use people have shoe-horned it into, but for which it is not entirely suited. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
