I do wonder how many bits in RAM really are "harmlessly flippable". If I took a snapshot of a running machine, how safe is that flip from landing somewhere bad? Perhaps a lot of stuff ends up being write only so fine?
My intuition is that it would probably depend on how much memory is being used and how fast.
If you're just decoding a lot of 8K video in SW, maybe most flips will be in the decoded bitmap frame buffer and will no be noticed. On the other hand if you're crunching a lot of data and are storing big, complex data structures in the process, it could more easily break some pointer address or length field and crash your program (or system, if it's kernel stuff).
>If I took a snapshot of a running machine, how safe is that flip from landing somewhere bad
Would be cool to set up KVM to flip a bit in a VM's memory every X amount of time and see how long it will take for weird stuff to happen.
