"Rob" <nom...@example.com> wrote in message
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David J Taylor <david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
"Todd Glassey" <tglas...@glassey.com> wrote in message
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I want to know about non ECC memory based PC's running NTP and how
many
NTP errors are caused by single and multi-bit memory errors.
Todd
I am not aware of any. I rather imagine that memory errors in such a
system would likely cause the system to halt, rather than affecting
just
NTP.
On a non ECC system, single and multi-bit memory errors just go
undetected
and do not cause any halt. When they occur at an appreciable rate,
there will
probably a lot of mysteriously crashing programs. At still a higher
rate,
the entire system will crash or hang.
But there is no deterministic behaviour that you can analyze.
Yes, I stand corrected. The "halt" would be because of some overwrite or
consistency check failure by the OS. I had in mind a hardware-detected
error - obviously not with non-ECC systems.
What was behind Todd's original request?
Cheers,
David
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