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Semi-related: I remember a story from HN a few years ago where someone started experiencing crashes and tracked it down to a single flipped bit in memory which
by oxymoron 6y ago
Semi-related: I remember a story from HN a few years ago where someone started experiencing crashes and tracked it down to a single flipped bit in memory which went away when he purged his page cache so the binary was reloaded from disk. Does anyone happen to have a link to it?
- whelming_wave 6y agoI don't remember it on HN, but this is prodding my memory about an article where the specific executable that was corrupted was `bc' on Linux, if that helps any other readers track it down. I think it specifically broke subtraction or something?
- HomeDeLaPot 6y agoI remember it too! This one? https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/attack-of-the-cosmic-rays-v2 https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/attack-of-the-cosmic-rays-v2
- oxymoron 6y agoThat’s the one! Thank you!