Did you ever get ECC corrected error?
Several dozen corrected bit-flips a year. I've seen stats that one can expect 1 bit-flip/gigabyte/month for a server that running a full load. You'd be crazy not to use ECC memory for production work.
Here's a paper about it: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
Thanks a lot for that statistics!
Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by Kaos-Industries on Monday October 14, 2019 @12:00PM
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Props for escaping the Apple cult for Windows, but I'm sorry, how much RAM? Why does anyone need that much RAM? And more importantly, how much did it cost?
The whole box was about 8K (w/o the monitors). Go to ThinkMate.com and price it for ECC ram. Prices change often. It's less than you think!
We do signal processing software in C++ and GPGPU so we like a lot of ram to hold samples. I probably only needed half of it.
I think people who want to compile Rust also need hundreds of GB or RAM....
My desktop machine is a box by ThinkMate (dual Xeon, 256 GB Ram, Dual 2080 video cards, dual 5K monitors). It "just works" -- including all the power management functions sleep, hibernate, monitor sleep, wake on ethernet, fan control, etc. Super quiet unless all the GPUs are running full blast.
My laptop is a Surface Book. Again, it "just works". Plug in a monitor, share the desktop, sleep and wake.
And other vendors are getting better at not putting in crapware that breaks windows, like hard-to-uninstall 30-day trial versions that nag you, or silly "extra keys" or help software (IBM used to have a key that brought up an IBM help system that was completely useless--and it used to get pressed accidentally.)
I switched from Mac to Windows when Windows 10 came out and haven't looked back. It "just works."