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All bugs are bad

All bugs are bad

Posted May 9, 2008 7:42 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: All bugs are bad by jzbiciak
Parent article: Time to slow down?

I should add, I did have a 486 system that was a poster child for the sig-11 FAQ, and I did
have a filesystem get hosed by a bitflip on a machine I built w/ 512MB RAM that wasn't ECC.
(The machine had nearly a year of uptime and not much load.  A bitflip on a disk buffer wasn't
actually all that unlikely.)

My current boxes all get ECC RAM now, and tons of extra cooling.


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