on 24/08/2010 22:51 Artem Belevich said the following: > IMHO the key here is whether hardware is broken or not. The only case > where correctable ECC errors are OK is when a bit gets flipped by a > high-energy particle. That's a normal but fairly rare event. If you > get bit flips often enough that you can recall details of more then > one of them on the same hardware, my guess would be that you're > dealing with something else -- bad/marginal memory, signal integrity > issues, power issues, overheating... The list continues.. In all those > cases hardware does *not* work correctly. Whether you can (or want to) > keep running stuff on the hardware that is broken is another question.
Have you read the article? :) If not, read at least the summary. > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Andriy Gapon <a...@icyb.net.ua> wrote: >> on 24/08/2010 09:14 Ronald Klop said the following: >>> >>> A little off topic, but what is 'a low rate of corrected ECC errors'? At >>> work >>> one machine has them like ones per day, but runs ok. Is ones per day much? >> >> That's up to your judgment. It's like after how many remapped sectors do you >> replace HDD. >> You may find this interesting: >> http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf >> >> -- >> Andriy Gapon -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
