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Gawd
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The Importance Of ECC RAM
Original comments by Torvalds are here: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpostid=198647
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-Torvalds-ECCLinus argues that error-correcting code (ECC) memory "absolutely matters" but that "Intel has been instrumental in killing the whole ECC industry with it's horribly bad market segmentation... Intel has been detrimental to the whole industry and to users because of their bad and misguided policies wrt ECC. Seriously...The arguments against ECC were always complete and utter garbage... Now even the memory manufacturers are starting do do ECC internally because they finally owned up to the fact that they absolutely have to. And the memory manufacturers claim it's because of economics and lower power. And they are lying bastards - let me once again point to row-hammer about how those problems have existed for several generations already, but these f*ckers happily sold broken hardware to consumers and claimed it was an "attack", when it always was "we're cutting corners".
Original comments by Torvalds are here: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpostid=198647
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