It did not help back in those days(early 1990) that no one had yet realized the recently mined lead solder they were using inside the dimm packaging had a still radioactive lead isotope(pb-210) in it. After they figured out the packaging itself was slightly radioactive and found solutions to massively reduce that the ECC error rate got much lower. On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Once upon a time, George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> said: > > For years we had SGI systems with ECC memory at work. There was a > > significant > > increase in the error rate during periods of high solar activity. > > During the last solar max cycle (like 2002 or so IIRC), a bunch of some > particular model Cisco routers were crashing and/or rebooting in ISP > networks because Cisco went cheap (relatively speaking, still expensive > routers) and didn't use ECC RAM. And the cycle before that (around > 1990) it was Sun servers crashing. > > Everything old is new again. > -- > Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
