Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market
by lsb on Monday February 28, 2011 @08:43AM
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I think it may have been Google that found that random RAM errors are quite likely over the course of a year, so you really want ECC memory if you're running a server and need uptime.
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Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market
by reeses on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @02:02AM
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I found a (the?) paper on the topic: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
I was going to ask you for a citation but realized that would be lazy when I could google[1] it myself. I've had a couple arguments with a hosting provider all but ignoring RAM errors, with them responding,"I rebooted and watched it for a few days, and it seems to have cured the issue."
[1] Do you ever think "bing it" will catch on? I think I've discovered their growth constraint factor.