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One of the remediations listed is

> Eliminating the ability for core dumps or other error reports to overwhelm system resources

but this is not mentioned at all in the timeline above. My best guess would be that the process got stuck in a tight restart loop and filled available disk space with logs, but I'm happy to hear other guesses for people more familiar with Rust.





I understood this to be related to this section:

> As well as returning HTTP 5xx errors, we observed significant increases in latency of responses from our CDN during the impact period. This was due to large amounts of CPU being consumed by our debugging and observability systems, which automatically enhance uncaught errors with additional debugging information.

(Just above https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/#how-clo...)


Ah, yes, of course. I must have missed that. Thanks!



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