From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 26 5:48:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sstar.com (sstar.com [209.205.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902A237BC3F for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 05:48:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Received: from marble ([216.54.255.8]) by sstar.com with SMTP (IPAD 2.52) id 2210600; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 07:48:28 -0500 Message-ID: <024301bfdf6c$d3e58680$08e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: "Matt Heckaman" , "Brad Knowles" Cc: "FreeBSD-STABLE" References: Subject: Re: Compatibility Question Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 07:48:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Heckaman" To: "Brad Knowles" Cc: "FreeBSD-STABLE" Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 6:42 AM Subject: Re: Compatibility Question Matt Heckaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > > : It's been my experience that when you start talking about > : significant amounts of RAM (anything over 128-256MB), you really, > : *really*, *REALLY* want to be using ECC. > > Interesting, I've always personally thought ECC to be somewhat overrated > and certaintly overpriced. Granted I do not have that much expierence in > comparison to some, but I have a machine here running 512M of non-ECC for > over a year now without any ram-related problems. (HD did die once though) > > ... > : Depending on what you're doing, how much down time results, how > : much your time costs per hour, and how much work is lost by all your > : customers, a single crash could cost you more than the ECC RAM that > : could have prevented that crash. > > I don't know, 512M (2x256) of ECC RAM will cost me 2,200$ - 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