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I'm responsible for a handful of servers where 'actually significant work' is being carried out. My reasoning applies to those machines just as much: - how muc
by Confusion 17y ago
I'm responsible for a handful of servers where 'actually significant work' is being carried out. My reasoning applies to those machines just as much:
- how much memory is in use?
- how large is the chance that a flipped bit is read (as opposed to being overwritten before being read)?
- What are the consequences of the flipped bit?
Apart from that: there are quite a few desktops in the world where 'actually significant work' is being carried out.
- regularfry 17y agoThe author touches on the "how much memory is in use" question: all major OSes use unallocated RAM as a file cache (or equivalent), so no matter where the error happens, it is almost certain to hit something. Whether that "something" is actually relevant is another matter.
- mfukar 17y agoThose are not directly related questions; the answer to each of those depends on the setup of the machine, both on hardware and software, and the practical cases are far too many to enumerate on a single blog post. You are welcome to perform some tests or even theorycrafting on your systems. On an unrelated note, I did not mean to demean desktops, but the reality is that there's orders of magnitude more devices that carry out tasks more critical than image processing or development. Embedded devices are one example.