Sun.Aug 30, 2020

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The Easy Ones – Three Bugs Hiding in the Open

Randon ASCII

I write a lot about investigations into tricky bugs – CPU defects , kernel bugs , transient 4-GB memory allocations – but most bugs are not that esoteric. Sometimes tracking down a bug is as simple as paying attention to server dashboards, spending a few minutes in a profiler, or looking at compiler warnings. Here then are three significant bugs which I found and fixed which were sitting in the open, just waiting for somebody to notice.

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