Re: crash in lua 5.2 garbage collection

["Pierre Chapuis" <catwell@...>]

> There was a recent article linked via Hacker News about one of the
> popular web cache applications (maybe it was Varnish?).  Anyway, this
> program uses a lot of RAM, and they've been seen un-reproducable bugs
> occasionally.  The authors suspect it is a hardware problem in many
> cases, so they've incorporated a memory test as part of their crash
> dump.  They were doing something clever with multiple XOR passes to
> check the memory and still preserve the original data.

It's probably Redis: http://antirez.com/news/43

-- 
Pierre Chapuis