From: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: ECC RAM really needed?
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 18:45:15 -0700
Message-ID: <4657912B.3000508@emolecules.com> (raw)
We're thinking of building some new servers. We bought some a while back that have ECC (error correcting) RAM, which is absurdly expensive compared to the same amount of non-ECC RAM. Does anyone have any real-life data about the error rate of non-ECC RAM, and whether it matters or not? In my long career, I've never once had a computer that corrupted memory, or at least I never knew if it did. ECC sound like a good idea, but is it solving a non-problem?
Thanks,
Craig
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