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-# Common sense risks
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-Please keep in mind that, similarly to many other computationally-intensive
-tasks, fuzzing may put a strain on your hardware and on the OS. In particular:
-
-  - Your CPU will run hot and will need adequate cooling. In most cases, if
-    cooling is insufficient or stops working properly, CPU speeds will be
-    automatically throttled. That said, especially when fuzzing on less
-    suitable hardware (laptops, smartphones, etc), it's not entirely impossible
-    for something to blow up.
-
-  - Targeted programs may end up erratically grabbing gigabytes of memory or
-    filling up disk space with junk files. AFL++ tries to enforce basic memory
-    limits, but can't prevent each and every possible mishap. The bottom line
-    is that you shouldn't be fuzzing on systems where the prospect of data loss
-    is not an acceptable risk.
-
-  - Fuzzing involves billions of reads and writes to the filesystem. On modern
-    systems, this will be usually heavily cached, resulting in fairly modest
-    "physical" I/O - but there are many factors that may alter this equation.
-    It is your responsibility to monitor for potential trouble; with very heavy
-    I/O, the lifespan of many HDDs and SSDs may be reduced.
-
-    A good way to monitor disk I/O on Linux is the 'iostat' command:
-
-```shell
-    $ iostat -d 3 -x -k [...optional disk ID...]
-```
-
-    Using the `AFL_TMPDIR` environment variable and a RAM-disk you can have the
-    heavy writing done in RAM to prevent the aforementioned wear and tear. For
-    example the following line will run a Docker container with all this preset:
-    
-    ```shell
-    # docker run -ti --mount type=tmpfs,destination=/ramdisk -e AFL_TMPDIR=/ramdisk aflplusplus/aflplusplus
-    ```
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