On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 12:43:03 +0100, Pancho wrote:

> On 24/10/2020 12:19, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:39:35 -0000 (UTC)
>> Markus Robert Kessler  wrote:
>>
>>> We are talking about a "Raspberry A" with 256 MB (MegaByte). Under
>>> load this amount will be eaten up soon. That was one of the reasons
>>> for inventing repeated reboots.
>>
>>  Reboots to cure memory leaks ? IOW reboots as a workaround for bad
>> programming! That has never been acceptable in my book since times when
>> 256Mb was a dream as disc capacity.
>
> Yeah, back in the real world it's an optimisation problem. Is it more
> efficient to reboot a server or invest time debugging leaky code. Time
> is money.

But seeing that the code is leaky is dead simple: just run top and look
at the display every so often.


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