Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
Retail4068@lemmy.world 13 hours agoAt what% does this effect the average consumer. And additionally in a critical easy. Can you cite, literally one case, where the presence of ECC would have been critical beyond an occasional annoyance. 1.
deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 10 hours ago
The exact numbers for when it messes something up, but keeps running, are unknown and highly ubpredictable.
According to above post, about 10% of firefox crashes (more numbers found in the post) are caused by this stuff. It’s not unreasonable to say those crashes could’ve had the bitflip happen on content instead, changing maybe a character on the page or something.
Note that it’s not 10% of users, as that’s reslly hard to figure out. Someone with bad RAM will likely crash more often.
Retail4068@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
So no. You’re optimizing around an edge case and something users don’t give a fuck about. Got it. 👍