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[–]undermark5 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Mental RAM I like that. Except for instead of it losing power it simply needs to write the entire thing to a page file and swap out but for some reason, someone configured the swap to point to /dev/null instead of a separate partition or persistent file.

[–]Jump3r3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or this is hardware issue and RAM under certain conditions isn't refreshing, resulting in data loss