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Ryan Smith in the link above seems to suggest error correction will be done transparently anyway, so it seems like it won't reported to the OS. So it doesn't lo
by DCKing 6y ago
Ryan Smith in the link above seems to suggest error correction will be done transparently anyway, so it seems like it won't reported to the OS. So it doesn't look like Intel could cripple it even if they wanted to.
- throw0101a 6y ago> Ryan Smith in the link above seems to suggest error correction will be done transparently anyway, and it won't reported to the OS. I once heard a rant from someone on how not reporting this to the OS is really bad for diagnosing issues, even soft errors that are auto-healed. (It could have been from Bryan Cantrill, but couldn't say for sure.)
- DCKing 6y agoI do think that there will still be some people interested in ECC detection and reporting, but that's not really why I'm interested in ECC memory. The dividing line "enterprise = error correction with monitoring / non-enterprise = silent error correction" is much more sensible than "non-enterprise = no error correction at all, good luck" IMO. Isn't the primary reason why people are looking into diagnostics is because it's very hard to determine whether ECC is working in the first place? Because it depends on the particular hardware setup? If the spec states that all DDR5 is supposed to have internal error correction anyway, then I'm happy to take for granted error correction is working until I read about the scandals of non-spec cheap DDR5 :)
- throw0101a 6y agoYes, I do not run things at a scale that would need that, but I would appreciate at least a toggle to have it available if needed: default=quiet(er) would be fine for most cases.
- BoppreH 6y agoZebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE&t=35m40s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE&t=35m40s
- throw0101a 6y agoYup. There's no rant like a Bryan Cantrill rant. :)