On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Such failures can happen undetected with or without ECC memory. It's simply
less likely with ECC. The whole thing about ECC memory... It's just doing
parity. It's a very weak checksum. If corruption happens in memory, it's
I am beginning to become worried now. ECC is more than "just doing
parity".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error-correcting_code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory
There have been enough sequential errors now (a form of corruption)
that I think that you should start doing research prior to posting.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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