[125245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Solar Flux (was: Re: China prefix hijack)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Sun Apr 11 10:07:25 2010
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:07:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: <g3mxxcbl5o.fsf@nsa.vix.com> (Paul Vixie's message of "Fri,
09 Apr 2010 17:17:23 +0000")
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org> writes:
> i'm more inclined to blame the heavy solar wind this month and to assume
> that chinanet's routers don't use ECC on the RAM containing their RIBs and
> that chinanet's router jockeys are in quite a sweat about this bad publicity.
> --
> Paul Vixie
> KI6YSY
That is likely to be an increasing problem in upcoming months/years.
Solar cycle 24 started in August '09; we're ramping up on the way out
of a more serious than usual sunspot minimum.
We've seen great increases in CPU and memory speeds as well as disk
densities since the last maximum (March 2000). Speccing ECC memory is
a reasonable start, but this sort of thing has been a problem in the
past (anyone remember the Sun UltraSPARC CPUs that had problems last
time around?) and will no doubt bite us again.
Rob Seastrom, AI4UC
