Re: ECC RAM really needed? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: ECC RAM really needed?
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.64.0705252350350.16561@westnet.com
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In response to Re: ECC RAM really needed?  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
Responses Re: ECC RAM really needed?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 25 May 2007, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> Wikipedia suggests a rule of thumb of one error per month per gigabyte,
> though suggests error rates vary widely. They reference a paper that
> should provide you with more background.

The paper I would recommend is

http://www.tezzaron.com/about/papers/soft_errors_1_1_secure.pdf

which is a summary of many other people's papers, and quite informative.
I know I had no idea before reading it how much error rates go up with
increasing altitute.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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