From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 26 5: 2: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27FA37BB3F for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 05:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id e5QC1t994289 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:01:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (root@niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id OAA18763 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:01:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from (talon@localhost) by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id OAA11145 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:01:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:01:53 +0200 From: Michel TALON To: FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: Compatibility Question Message-ID: <20000626140153.A11131@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-STABLE References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 07:42:50AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 07:42:50AM -0400, Matt Heckaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > > : It's been my experience that when you start talking about > : significant amounts of RAM (anything over 128-256MB), you really, > : *really*, *REALLY* want to be using ECC. > > Interesting, I've always personally thought ECC to be somewhat overrated > and certaintly overpriced. Granted I do not have that much expierence in > comparison to some, but I have a machine here running 512M of non-ECC for > over a year now without any ram-related problems. (HD did die once though) Here in our lab, we have ~20 biprocessors doing heavy numerical computations with 512 Megs of non ECC memory. They work night and day, all days of the year without a single problem. Is the memory adding some entropy to the results? I don't know. -- Michel TALON To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message