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> Eyeballing the numbers [0][1] I would expect one bitflip between once every year and once every 100 years on 128GB of memory. I'm willing to take those odds.
by flukus 7y ago
> Eyeballing the numbers [0][1] I would expect one bitflip between once every year and once every 100 years on 128GB of memory. I'm willing to take those odds.
Throw in the likely hood of the flipped bit being consequential and the odds look even better. To potentially do major damage the flipped bit would have to be in an area of memory of something being executed and it has to flip after being read and before being executed, which probably ads at least 2 more orders of magnitude. Even for general bitrot of data has to be in memory and get flipped between reads and writes. Those odds are vanishingly small compared to programmer error.