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I hear this all the time, that non-ecc machines are just completely fragile, and the math seems to indicate that one should be getting bit flips all the time. a
by jjeaff 3y ago
I hear this all the time, that non-ecc machines are just completely fragile, and the math seems to indicate that one should be getting bit flips all the time. and yet, my Intel system has 64gb of non-ecc ram and it runs half the day everyday and is hibernated at night. I run 3d cad software on it, Photoshop, vs code with tons of extensions and software running in wsl2 docker containers and I just never really get any errors. certainly no crashing or blue screen. what exactly should one expect from bitflip errors? I would think that even single bitflips as often as they should happen with 64gb of ram being used almost fully would show up somehow.
- justinclift 3y ago> what exactly should one expect from bitflip errors? Probably silently wrong values happening in memory somewhere. If it's not in something where that value is not actively running code code, you probably won't have a crash. If it's in (say) Excel calculation formula it'll probably just screw up the calculation. Which may or may not be obvious. Similar thing for 3D cad, it could be completely non-obvious.