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How does a comic bit flip make it past the Ethernet CRC?

• aaaaaaaaaaab 5y ago
  It occurs in your machine before hitting the network.
  • octoberfranklin 5y ago
    because your machine vendor was too cheap to use ECC DRAM.
    • bobsmooth 5y ago
      Thank you Mr. Torvalds
      • octoberfranklin 5y ago
        Would you like to hear my opinion of NVidia? Please be sure to remove any young children from the room beforehand.
  • sbierwagen 5y ago
    Raymond Chen said a few years ago that overclocked machines produce a lot of spurious crash reports: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35923 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35... If those computers are scribbling over memory at random, then that's occasionally going to cause some crashes, but much more commonly result in silent data corruption.