[Malvern] Memory Reliability

[Ian Pascoe]

Hi Folks

Came across an interesting Q & A on the Open Mosic's site.

http://howto.x-tend.be/openMosixWiki/index.php/Additions_to_the_FAQ

If I understand the Q & A properly, what is being said is that standard
modern day RAM in off the shelf consumer boxes cannot deal with the long on
times of, in this case computer nodes in a cluster, but must also apply to
other boxes like servers etc.

Anyone agree / disagree with what the article says?

My instant response to this was that it was a load of splutter-bluff, but
having sat down and thought about it I'm now not quite so sure.  For
instance, when you speak to any SysAdmins they generally recommend
re-booting both MS and Linux servers on a regular basis to clear them out
and and therefore making them run better....

E