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Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed

Posted by kdawson on from the forget-me-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Google study of DRAM errors in their data centers found that they are hundreds to thousands of times more common than has been previously believed. Hard errors may be the most common failure type. The DIMMs themselves appear to be of good quality, and bad mobo design may be the biggest problem." Here is the study (PDF), which Google engineers published with a researcher from the University of Toronto.

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  1. Gentoo?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I use Gentoo; how does this affect me?

    1. Re:Gentoo?? by Runaway1956 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I would suspect that it has no bearing on you at all. Simply chanting "Gentoo Gentoo Gentoo" should cure any and all hardware errors. You're safe, AC.

      I'll keep this fool occupied, someone go call the guys in white coats for me.

      --
      "Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
    2. Re:Gentoo?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you use Gentoo, you'll have to make your own DRAM from the schematics.

  2. Re:ZFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    it reduces the effects of universal entropy, obviously.

  3. An explanation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe this is explainable by today's story that the universe has 100x more entropy than we thought

  4. I thought that an inability to recall events by bugs2squash · · Score: 3, Funny

    was only a problem for government computers.

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    Nullius in verba
  5. Re:Percentage? by silent_artichoke · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, maybe googling it isn't the best idea in this case. Memory errors and all...

  6. Re:ZFS by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2, Funny

    It makes the problem magically go away by redirecting his attention to a catchy new gadget.

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    Ezekiel 23:20
  7. Re:ZFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are you kidding?! It's 100x greater than we thought!!

  8. Re:ZFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A second vote for ReiserFS. It even flatly denies that any errors occurred.