Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!ttrdc!levy
From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: VAX Memory Test
Summary: scrubbing
Message-ID: <2854@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 88 23:29:38 GMT
References: <3300032@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <12849@mimsy.UUCP> <1743@swlabs.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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In article <1743@swlabs.UUCP>, jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) writes:
# On a high reliability system we designed, we had an ECC error "gleaner"
# which would read and write successive memory locations in order to correct
# soft single bit errors before alpha particles (or whatever) changed them 
# into double bit errors and made them uncorrectable.
# Is there a more proper name for this?  To me a "gleaner" brings to mind
# someone working at the feet of the grim reaper.  Not too pleasant a 
# thought.

I've heard this referred to as "scrubbing."
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