Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug
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OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.
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It shows how to apply epidemiology-style, large-scale core dump aggregation to isolate rare crashes across a fleet — a debugging approach that separates a hardware fault from a decades-old software bug when single-instance debugging fails.
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