From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 8 16: 6:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B1937B6E6 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:05:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14150; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:35:36 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:35:35 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Chris Dillon Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? Cc: David Kelly , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Francisco Reyes Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 08-Jan-01 Chris Dillon wrote: > AFAIK, with every X86 chipset I've used at least, the correction > happens automatically, and the NMI is only there to alert you that it > has happened. Most systems will let you turn the NMI off for > corrections and only issue an NMI for an un-correctable error. IMHO it's very useful to be able to read the number of corrections.. Good for justifying the extra cost :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message