Why ECC? 6% fail rate w/16GB. Error distribution shows plenty of box w/100+ errors per month http://danluu.com/why-ecc/ pic.twitter.com/PLuTvCvqr0
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BTW the background here is that 95% of mem in maybe 80% of machines is checking a software model vs. hardware "RTL" (code).
Data corruption is likely to show up as some kind of test failure because it's unlikely that a bit flips to match the other model.
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One of the fun things here is that IT can generally spot the bad machines by looking at which are *overproductive*! Failing tests bail early
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