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KS2009: How Google uses Linux

KS2009: How Google uses Linux

Posted Oct 21, 2009 12:28 UTC (Wed) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550)
In reply to: KS2009: How Google uses Linux by crlf
Parent article: KS2009: How Google uses Linux

Thank you, very interesting paper.

So, one chance in three per annum of suffering a memory error on a given machine, roughly.

With ECC memory which Google use as standard, 19 out of 20 of these errors will be transparently corrected.

With non-ECC memory, as in commodity PCs, stiff biscuit every time.


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