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Re: Arista Switches rebooting


From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 22:35:47 +0300

On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 21:57, Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com> wrote:

As the process size in fabrication gets smaller and smaller, it takes less and less energy hitting a device to cause 
spurious events like these.

Agreed. However in this case it was not a single-event upset (or
multi-event upset) but timing problem, fixable with new software on
the memory controller.  Single-event upsets should be benign with ECC
memories.

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