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Bit flips are real. I used to see them on my (admittedly low end) webserver. Eg. There were occasional errors like "myOfunction not found". A quick glance on a
by rubenbe 8y ago
Bit flips are real.
I used to see them on my (admittedly low end) webserver.
Eg. There were occasional errors like "myOfunction not found".
A quick glance on a ASCII table shows that the original function name "my_function" is indeed one bitflip away (0x4F vs 0x5F)
- jandrese 8y agoIf you were seeing errors like that with any regularity there's almost certainly a hardware issue on your server. Cosmic ray bitflips are really rare, and tend to be basically invisible until you're monitoring an entire datacenter.