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Is it possible to give an example other than “cosmic ray”? I know it’s an informal short hand, but it also raises the question of what’s actually causing these
by sillysaurusx 5y ago
Is it possible to give an example other than “cosmic ray”? I know it’s an informal short hand, but it also raises the question of what’s actually causing these flips.
Is it just random stray electrons that happen to stray too far while traveling through the RAM? Very interesting to me.
- DominoTree 5y agoOld DRAM/SRAM simply becoming flaky, overheating, physical connection issues, faulty power - there are a ton of reasons these flips happen, and I would think that in most cases they are entirely unnoticed or simply observed as an application crashing, rather than being recognized as directly caused by bit flips.