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		thebruce87m 6 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips That shouldn’t make sense. It’s not like the ECC info is stored in additional bits separate from the data, it’s built in with the data so you can’t “ignore” it. Hmm, off to read the paper.

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Agingcoder 2 hours ago [–]

I fully agree with you ! Neither soft nor hard memory errors, nothing… but but flips ,and reproducible at that.

We scanned all our machines following this ( a few thousand servers ) and found out that ram issues were actually quite common, as said in the paper.

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