Critical Server Needs and the Linux Kernel (Linux Journal)

Critical Server Needs and the Linux Kernel (Linux Journal)

Posted Oct 22, 2004 23:08 UTC (Fri) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
Parent article: Critical Server Needs and the Linux Kernel (Linux Journal)

ECC support with software scrubbing on IA32. Most other archs have it.

The only reason this is not critical for enterprises is that proper server hardware has hardware scrubbing. But for entry-level servers and workstations with no hardware scrubbing, ECC support would be a nice thing to have.

(ECC support means that the kernel actually tells you if the hardware detects and corrects ECC errors, so that you know you are experiencing them. Scrubbing is needed, either in software or hardware, so that a second error in that memory cell will not cause real data loss).

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