On 2024-04-17 23:06, jack wrote:
As a result of this I will be checking the RAM on all my machines once
a month or the moment a machine starts to act strange.
Once a month is overkill, and unlikely to be useful. :)
With server or enterprise grade hardware, it'll support "ECC" memory.
That ha
That kind of support for “damaged ram” you have it with ECC memory on CPU’s
that support it.
XEON cpus for example.
> On 17 Apr 2024, at 15:06, jack wrote:
>
> uld advise me if there was ever an issue with me
I discovered that one of the memory sticks in the machine was damaged.
Running memtest86 on the machine generated many RAM errors.
This was causing the strange bi-polar errors in postgresql.
The hardware technician explained that he sees this often and that there is no
one cause for such problems