If you allocated 510 bytes followed by 2 bytes the line would go straight down the page. And if you allocated 508 bytes + 2 bytes the line would slope the other way. If you allocated 516 bytes + 2 then the line would have a different slope.

This accounts for a single line. To get multiple lines the allocations must simply add up to the numbers above and change in a linear fashion. Consider the single line case of 514 + 2. Now consider if we allocate 4 structures at a time:
500 + 2 + 12 + 2 = 514 bytes
498 + 2 + 14 + 2 = 514
496 + 2 + 16 + 2 = 514
and so on.

This would generate 2 lines (although I’m not sure what the slope of the second line would be).

Of course they look like a picture that someone might draw of a cosmic ray, but I hope you were only joking about the cosmic rays, alhthough it sound like you were not. If not, you really need to acquaint yourself with computer hardware a little better.

Thanks,
Dmitry

It’s possible to get a memory map pattern from cosmic rays but it is actually very, very unlikely to manifest so literally like this. Here’s the reasons:

1. Address Scramble
2. Data Array Layout (and Scramble)
3. Target Cross Section and Energy Deposition

P(seeing trivial track) ~ P(adjacency) * P(low oblique hit) * P(incident cosmic ray in time).

This gives a really small number, plus the effect of scrambles means it would never manifest like this. Nobody publishes scrambles (only internal test engineers even care) so odds are you wouldn’t be able to descramble to see the pattern in the first place.