Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:15:50 GMT, Alistair John Strachan said:
> Seems pretty unlikely on a 4 year old Via Epia. Never had any problems with it
> before now.
> 
> Maybe a cosmic ray event? ;-)

More likely a stray alpha particle from a radioactive decay in the actual chip
casing - I saw some research a while back that said that the average commodity
system should *expect* to see 1 or 2 alpha-induced single-bit errors per year,
and the chance that *you* saw the event was directly related to whether the
memory had ECC, and how much of the other circuitry had ECC on it....

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