First, apologies for the top posting. On the road, and using my company's stinky MS webmail. But, ECC memory is absolutely a good idea if you're performing a lot of RAM-intensive operations, such as in numerical simulations and so on. Error occurrences are infrequent, but of course will increase in frequency as memory access, and the amount of memory in the system(!) increases. So if you're at all involved in that sort of work, then ECC is worth the minimal effort of use. Peter Peter D. Roopnarine, Assoc. Curator Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology California Academy of Sciences 875 Howard St. San Francisco CA 94103 USA http://zeus.calacademy.org/roopnarine/peter.html http://www.calacademy.org/blogs Tel. (415)321-8271 FAX (415)321-8615 Climate change begins and ends at home -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Timothy Murphy Sent: Fri 12/7/2007 5:07 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Is ECC memory any use? I'm getting memory for a very old (P2B-LS) Asus motherboard, and I see I can get ECC memory for some 20% more. Is there any point in getting this? I see there is quite a lot of work in getting ECC testing incorporated into the Linux kernel. But even if it were there, would it be very valuable? I have a feeling that disk errors are far more likely than RAM errors. Is that right? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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