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title: 'Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug'
link: https://openai.com/index/core-dump-epidemiology-data-infrastructure-bug
source: openai-com
published: 2026-06-30T00:00:00Z
updated: 2026-06-30T00:00:00Z
first_seen: 2026-10-04T12:50:30.804479567Z
labels:
- engineering
summary: 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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html: 2026-06-30-core-dump-epidemiology-fixing-an-18-year-old-bug.html
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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.