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Re:Malloc Geiger Counter by Someone on Saturday August 29, 2020 @08:55AM (#24315751)
You weren’t explicitly saying it, but some might infer it, so I think it’s worth mentioning that bit flips in RAM aren’t necessarily radiation-induced. Some other causes are heat and aging (both increase capacitor leakage, and DRAM cells are tiny capacitors), or lack of robustness in refresh logic.
Re:Malloc Geiger Counter by quercusa on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:44PM (#24317373)
Another cause, at least in the old days, was bad board design, in which badly-placed traces could induce currents in other traces. Of course this only happened two+ hours into the test.