On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:12:22 PDT, Hans Reiser said: > It seems like bad memory is growing as a percentage of user filesystem > problem sources. Do others have that feeling also?
Assuming that the chances of any given 16 megabit (or whatever size it is) RAM chip having a flaky bit being identical, then the chance of bad memory in any given gigabyte of RAM is the same.. and if you have 1/2G of memory, you have 1/8 the chance of a bad bit compared to having 4G installed. The bigger question is why ECC isn't catching this stuff.... (and yes, I know some hardware doesn't do ECC on all data paths, which is the point :)
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