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Do you live at a very high altitude with a significant amount of solar radiation, or at an underfunded radiology lab or perhaps near a uranium deposit or a melt
by moffkalast 1y ago
Do you live at a very high altitude with a significant amount of solar radiation, or at an underfunded radiology lab or perhaps near a uranium deposit or a melted down nuclear reactor? Because the average machine should never see a memory bit flip error at all during its entire lifetime.
- rkomorn 1y agoThen how do you explain all the bugs in the software I write?!
- moffkalast 1y agoIt truly is a cosmic mystery :)
- yndoendo 1y agoBit flipping can be the byproduct of bow the system components harmonize. Role hammer RAM also has the same affect. [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
- moffkalast 1y ago> Furthermore, research shows that precisely targeted three-bit Rowhammer flips prevents ECC memory from noticing the modifications. Doesn't exactly sound like a use case for ECC memory, given that it can't correct these attacks. Interesting though, I'd have thought that virtual addresses would've largely fixed this.