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JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

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10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

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JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5
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    Maybe it was too vanilla to crash. 🍨

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