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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by pkaye on Monday January 01, 2018 @08:54PM (#16049270)
"Alpha particles can be stopped by a sheet of paper, beta particles by aluminum, and gamma radiation by a block of lead."

This is what I read online. A typical hardware components is enclosed in a aluminum case so really gamma radiation is of concern right?

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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by krallja on Monday January 01, 2018 @09:23PM (#16049387)
GP is saying the radiation is emitted by the component package itself, i.e. the random decay of particles in the ceramic surrounding an IC can cause errors.
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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by ajarmst on Monday January 01, 2018 @09:30PM (#16049411)
Lantz, "Soft errors induced by Alpha Particles", 1996. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/510798/?reload=true
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Re:The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation pat... by dboreham on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:15AM (#16050031)
It comes from within.
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