Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed 333
An anonymous reader writes "A Google study of DRAM errors in their data centers found that they are hundreds to thousands of times more common than has been previously believed. Hard errors may be the most common failure type. The DIMMs themselves appear to be of good quality, and bad mobo design may be the biggest problem." Here is the study (PDF), which Google engineers published with a researcher from the University of Toronto.
Gentoo?? (Score:1, Funny)
I use Gentoo; how does this affect me?
Re:ZFS (Score:1, Funny)
it reduces the effects of universal entropy, obviously.
An explanation (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe this is explainable by today's story that the universe has 100x more entropy than we thought [slashdot.org]
Re:Gentoo?? (Score:5, Funny)
I would suspect that it has no bearing on you at all. Simply chanting "Gentoo Gentoo Gentoo" should cure any and all hardware errors. You're safe, AC.
I'll keep this fool occupied, someone go call the guys in white coats for me.
I thought that an inability to recall events (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Gentoo?? (Score:3, Funny)
If you use Gentoo, you'll have to make your own DRAM from the schematics.
Re:Percentage? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ZFS (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ZFS (Score:1, Funny)
Are you kidding?! It's 100x greater than we thought!!
Re:ZFS (Score:1, Funny)
A second vote for ReiserFS. It even flatly denies that any errors occurred.