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How much hardware have you used? I regularly find machine that crash, see errors reported in mcelog, and when I run memtest no errors. I'm guessing that memte
by sliken 10y ago
How much hardware have you used? I regularly find machine that crash, see errors reported in mcelog, and when I run memtest no errors. I'm guessing that memtest doesn't use a challenging access patterns, or something about powersaving/clocking that runs it a bit slower.
In any case I LOVE ECC. Sure random radiation caused bit flips are relatively rare. But it's REALLY nice to see high levels of ECC errors when something died and not have to wonder if it's the flash drive, power supply, graphics card etc. Sure sometimes its the dimm, sometimes it's the motherboard, sometimes it's the CPU. But with ECC errors you can much more quickly/easily tell if it changes when you swap things around.