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I've also seen that, often enough that a hardware issue is extraordinarily unlikely. It's almost certainly just a boring old software bug.
by TillE 3y ago
I've also seen that, often enough that a hardware issue is extraordinarily unlikely. It's almost certainly just a boring old software bug.
- dist-epoch 3y agoPopular compressors like 7zip are some of the best tested software on the planet, because corruption is immediately detected. And we know hardware bugs are real, that's the whole point of rowhammer. You might want to look at Facebook research: > “Silent data corruptions are not limited to rare one in a million occurrences within a large-scale infrastructure. These errors are systemic and are not as well understood as the other failure modes like Machine Check Exceptions.” A large part of the responsibility should be shared by device makers, Facebook says. https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/01/facebook-architects-around-silent-data-corruption/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/01/facebook-architects-...