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Since nearly every consumer machine uses non-ECC RAM it's probably best to just do a full shutdown at night and boot up the next day. It reminds me of "bitsqua
by zamadatix 5mo ago
Since nearly every consumer machine uses non-ECC RAM it's probably best to just do a full shutdown at night and boot up the next day.
It reminds me of "bitsquatting" where you can get a lot of hits for domains 1 bit off really popular domains (separate from likely typos).
- LoganDark 5mo agoI doubt random bitflips are the source of most NT invariant violations. A reboot does fix them all the same though.
- withinboredom 5mo agoBitflips are surprisingly more common than you think but rare enough to not be a concern.
- jmalicki 5mo agoIf you have ECC memory, you can actually monitor this. I've typically seen ~a dozen bitflips per year per machine when I looked at this on servers, except for the cases of a faulty RAM module. I am more worried about SSD corruption than RAM bitflips from data I've seen on my systems.
- cpeterso 5mo agoRestarting Windows is actually “cleaner” than shutting down on modern PCs because shutdown saves some kernel state for Windows Fast Startup.
- zamadatix 5mo agoYou can also just disable fast startup to always do a full shutdown regardless how you do it.