From: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ECC RAM really needed?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 00:01:56 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0705252350350.16561@westnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070526021553.GA8875@wolff.to>
References: <4657912B.3000508@emolecules.com>
<20070526021553.GA8875@wolff.to>
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.
--
* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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