Jan Panteltje  writes:
> Was reading this:
> 
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/linus-torvalds-blames-intel-for-lack-of
-ecc-ram-in-consumer-pcs/?comments=1
>
> with ever more RAM (now 8 GB) and raspberry used more and more for
> very serious things
> should that not be the next step?

   A large-scale study of Google servers found that roughly 32 percent
   of all servers (and 8 percent of all DIMMs) in Google's fleet
   experience at least one memory error per year.

...i.e. about one error per server per three years. (Perhaps even lower
frequency on consumer hardware since it generally has less RAM.) I don’t
think consumers should expect to see their computers get noticably more
reliable overall if ECC RAM does become ubiquitous, because that failure
rate is totally swamped by software bugs.

I have once seen a inarguable memory error in the wild, affecting the
cached copy of /bin/cat on a Linux box, about 20Y ago.

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