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nahuel0xyesterday at 1:56 PM1 replyview on HN

Something important not discussed here is that you need not only error correction (when possible) but also error reporting, so you can know you RAM is failing. Sadly, is not possible to get DDR5 on-die ECC error counts reported to the OS. Alternative solution, use IBECC with DDR5, where the CPU reserves a portion of the RAM for parity bits and does the check / reporting.


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inigyouyesterday at 2:53 PM

My Linux installation came with an AMD MCE driver that reports them to dmesg. It logs a few corrected errors a day.

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