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> do they consider the memory is faulty when there are correctable errors? It depends on the frequency. Occasional CEs are somewhat expected (on a large enough
by photon-torpedo 4y ago
> do they consider the memory is faulty when there are correctable errors?
It depends on the frequency. Occasional CEs are somewhat expected (on a large enough scale) and one can live with them, after all that's what ECC is for. When CEs start happening frequently on one machine, most likely a DIMM is going bad and will worsen over time, so one should replace it.
- dis-sys 4y agothanks for the info. this is exactly what I am doing. it does provide extra peace in mind knowing that my odds of having silent corruption is further reduced by doing such monitoring.