[ntp:questions] NTP errors are caused by single and multi-bit memory errors (was: Re: questions Digest, Vol 66, Issue 7)

Rob nomail at example.com
Mon Apr 12 16:29:31 UTC 2010


David J Taylor <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> "Todd Glassey" <tglassey at glassey.com> wrote in message 
> news:4BC31C47.1000606 at glassey.com...
> []
>> I want to know about non ECC memory based PC's running NTP and how many
>> NTP errors are caused by single and multi-bit memory errors.
>>
>> Todd
>
> I am not aware of any.  I rather imagine that memory errors in such a 
> system would likely cause the system to halt, rather than affecting just 
> NTP.

On a non ECC system, single and multi-bit memory errors just go undetected
and do not cause any halt.  When they occur at an appreciable rate, there will
probably a lot of mysteriously crashing programs.  At still a higher rate,
the entire system will crash or hang.

But there is no deterministic behaviour that you can analyze.




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