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Article #716654Re: hot video card
From: Ross Ridge
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:52
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:52
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Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > I was recently reading a Google paper on the reliability of RAM in > their servers. One of the things they found was that there wasn't a > correlation between temperature and error rates. ... What they did > find was that error rates were correlated with usage. Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote: >Do you have a pointer to the paper? http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf It's actually a pretty scary article, about 8.2% of their DIMMs had an error during the study and once DIMM had one error it would usually have more. Since they use ECC memory, almost all of these errors were corrected and allowing the server to continue running without incident. In the average PC without ECC memory these errors would've caused unexplained crashes or corruption of data. Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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