I remember hearing when I was in college that parity errors in memory occurred more frequently at higher elevations (e.g. Denver) than somewhere else at Sea Level and I am wondering if that is true. I logged into our backup facility in Calgary, today, to work on our backup mail servers and found that the north bridge controller had reported some ~275,000+ EDAC operations over the course of three days… that seems a bit excessive! I don’t know how frequently non-fatal memory exceptions occur, however. My guess is that one of the memory modules in the computer is bad, but I don’t know how to tell for sure.
- Does elevation play a factor in memory corruption (space radiation!)?
- What is a normal number of such events per day or per year?
- Since the error seems to occur on the same page every time does this indicate a possible flaw in one of the physical memory modules in the computer? Is it possible to figure out which one based on memory address?
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