Re: ECC RAM really needed?

Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> The paper I would recommend is
> http://www.tezzaron.com/about/papers/soft_errors_1_1_secure.pdf
> which is a summary of many other people's papers, and quite informative. 
> I know I had no idea before reading it how much error rates go up with 
> increasing altitute.

Not real surprising if you figure the problem is mostly cosmic rays.

Anyway, this paper says

> Even using a relatively conservative error rate (500 FIT/Mbit), a
> system with 1 GByte of RAM can expect an error every two weeks;

which should pretty much cure any idea that you want to run a server
with non-ECC memory.

			regards, tom lane