Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug
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OpenAI engineers identified an 18-year-old software bug and a hardware fault by analyzing core dumps, resolving rare infrastructure crashes in their data infrastructure.
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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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