Fediverse is great, I can post stuff here now as it’s down. xD

Edit: damn, they’re already back up this quick

Here was the archive: https://archive.ph/RAZ5Q

    • bonenode@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      Worst time for faulty memory. Hope someone had a stick lying around so they don’t have to pay outrageuous prices.

      • tempest@lemmy.ca
        4·
        4 months ago

        It’s still not that common to have one die. Servers have ECC memory which can get you by longer even as a DIMM starts to die. It’s also rarely run at speeds consumer RAM is run at.

        The thing with server memory is when you get to point where you have hundreds of servers and each one has 12 to 24 DIMMs the chance you have a bad one somewhere increases.

        • dan@upvote.au
          5·
          4 months ago

          Some servers have ECC. If you get a cheap one (like a Hetzner auction server), it’s less likely to have ECC. ECC protects against bitflips, but it won’t help if the RAM is starting to die. ECC isn’t magic - it just has an extra 8 bits of parity data per 64 bits of data. It still uses the same type of RAM chips.

          • tempest@lemmy.ca
            1·
            4 months ago

            It isn’t magic but RAM doesn’t tend to just stop working. You’ll start getting reported error correction events on a bad dim before it might fail which usually means it’s replacement time.

        • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          nah for sure, but i’d give a bet ruud was running on consumer hardware which has far less fault tolerance built in

    • Egonallanon@feddit.uk
      3·
      4 months ago

      At least anecdotally I find them to be the third most common thing to fail after storage drives and fans. Though yeah still super rare.

    • sobchak@programming.dev
      3·
      4 months ago

      Never had one fail. Bought a faulty one once. Took me months to figure out why I was having data corruption issues. Thought it was one of the old HDDs I was using in a ZRAID array, so I would swap one out and try again until I’d eventually get a corruption error again. Finally found the issue after about 10 minutes of running a memory test of a bootable USB.