Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:24:05 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH, 1/4] readX_check() performance evaluation |
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>>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:52:46 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> said:
>> I find this comment interesting. Can you elaborate what you mean by >> "slightly buggy systems"?
Andi> e.g. one bit ECC errors in memory are quite common. And with Andi> ECC memory they are not really fatal.
Yet they are a good indicator that something is wrong (not performing properly) or may be failing soon. I don't think putting on blinders for such problems is a good idea. Though I agree that the question of how to report such things without needlessly alerting Joe Clueless is an interesting challenge.
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