Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 07:48:28 -0500 From: "Jim King" <king@sstar.com> To: "Matt Heckaman" <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, "Brad Knowles" <blk@skynet.be> Cc: "FreeBSD-STABLE" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Compatibility Question Message-ID: <024301bfdf6c$d3e58680$08e48486@marble> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006260733330.2314-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Heckaman" <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> To: "Brad Knowles" <blk@skynet.be> Cc: "FreeBSD-STABLE" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 6:42 AM Subject: Re: Compatibility Question Matt Heckaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > > : It's been my experience that when you start talking about > : significant amounts of RAM (anything over 128-256MB), you really, > : *really*, *REALLY* want to be using ECC. > > Interesting, I've always personally thought ECC to be somewhat overrated > and certaintly overpriced. Granted I do not have that much expierence in > comparison to some, but I have a machine here running 512M of non-ECC for > over a year now without any ram-related problems. (HD did die once though) > > ... > : Depending on what you're doing, how much down time results, how > : much your time costs per hour, and how much work is lost by all your > : customers, a single crash could cost you more than the ECC RAM that > : could have prevented that crash. > > I don't know, 512M (2x256) of ECC RAM will cost me 2,200$ - that's an > awful nasty hit to be taking for what the server will do, which is a > generally nasty business called shell services. In other words, there is > no single client paying thousands of dollars for web hosting of their > company's core page that will cost them (and me) a fortune for any > downtime :) Given this situation, I've a hard time justifying that cost, > which is only a few hundred dollars less then the *entire* machine is > going to cost me, especially for it's role :) Where are you buying your memory!? Crucial (http://www.crucial.com) has 2x256MB ECC registered SDRAM for about $800; I'm sure other places have similar (or better) prices. Well worth it, IMHO. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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