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Well, non-ECC RAM can report "0 errors" for less money. The problem is how to determine whether your system is actually capable of detecting/logging errors end
by p1mrx 6y ago
Well, non-ECC RAM can report "0 errors" for less money.
The problem is how to determine whether your system is actually capable of detecting/logging errors end-to-end. There needs to be a standard way to inject an ECC error and see what happens.
- ChuckMcM 6y agoThere are also BIOS setups that "mask" soft or correctable errors since nothing bad happens when they correct the problem. I've always preferred to not mask those errors as it was always a good thing to note on server hardware on clusters that if their soft error correction rate started rising then a DIMM was going to need to be replaced.
- Dylan16807 6y agoOverclock it one step at a time until it gets mad.
- theevilsharpie 6y ago> Well, non-ECC RAM can report "0 errors" for less money. "0 errors" is very different from "ECC not available," and that's a distinction I'd expect the operating system to be able to make. For example, here's how Linux shows ECC and non-ECC memory reports: # ECC $ sudo edac-util -v mc0: 0 Uncorrected Errors with no DIMM info mc0: 0 Corrected Errors with no DIMM info edac-util: No errors to report. # Non-ECC $ sudo edac-util -v edac-util: Error: No memory controller data found.