| ▲ | flaunf221 2 days ago | |
You can read online how often correctable errors happen to people with ECC and reporting. Single digit - sometimes none - errors per year in systems with consumer amount of RAM. | ||
| ▲ | etbe 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Systems with "consumer amounts of RAM" are often run with what you might call "consumer amounts of sysadmin knowledge" and not notice the errors. One time I took a working workstation from my home to my parents' home to give them. When I booted it up it gave a lot of strange kernel errors which I googled and discovered were reports of ECC correction. I reseated all DIMMs and it was fine. If that gave errors a few times a year instead of thousands of times on the first boot I wouldn't have noticed. | ||
| ▲ | inigyou 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Sometimes I get a few per day. I only know that because my Linux kernel configuration happens to have whatever settings enabled to get them reported in dmesg. | ||