Cores that don’t count [pdf]
Site is down, archive link: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210602080638/https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s01-hochschild.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20210602080638/https://sigops.or...</a><p>What stands out to me:<p>- "Mercurial cores are extremely rare" but "we observe on the order of a few mercurial cores per several thousand machines". On average one core per 1000 machines is faulty? That's quite a high rate.<p>- Vendors surely must know about this? If not by testing then through experiencing the failures in their company servers.<p>- I've read the whole paper and I see no mention of them even reaching out to vendors about this issue. Their are strong incentives on both sides to solve or mitigate this issue so why aren't they working together?