xoreaxeaxeax / sandsifter

The x86 processor fuzzer
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Resume improvements #56

Open Beanow opened 6 years ago

Beanow commented 6 years ago

On my i5-7600K I'm getting relatively frequent crashes of the application. When using the --resume option to work around this and keep scanning, the results so far are cleared.

So my request for resume would be to:

At that point, running with resume and a docker with a restart policy would perhaps be enough to run this overnight and get a more-or-less complete result to summarize.

Beanow commented 6 years ago

Another thing I found, using -l and -j to go multi-threaded does not resume properly as only one instruction is saved to disk.