From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 26 5: 6:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BCF37B57A for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 05:06:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000626120629.NJIJ26299.relay02@chello.nl>; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:06:29 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA01209; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:06:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:06:46 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matt Heckaman Cc: Brad Knowles , FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: Compatibility Question Message-ID: <20000626140646.B1179@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 07:42:50AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 No, it is underrated and overpriced. For real serious work that is. It obviously depends on what a memory related crash costs you.. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message