Re:For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with...
by sannee on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:02PM
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> I wonder if it’s possible to detect solar flares in these logs. Need to find a good data source for them. Are there any other events generating lots of radiation that may affect servers?
Cosmic ray showers [1] potentially. My prediction is that there should be "clusters" of bit errors every few minutes or so (given sufficient amount of servers...).
I was talking to a sysadmin at a local company running a few thousand servers about getting their ECC error logs in order to look for these, but scraping them apparently wasn't trivially managable for them.
Cosmic ray showers [1] potentially. My prediction is that there should be "clusters" of bit errors every few minutes or so (given sufficient amount of servers...).
I was talking to a sysadmin at a local company running a few thousand servers about getting their ECC error logs in order to look for these, but scraping them apparently wasn't trivially managable for them.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_shower_(physics)