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.

 Out here in my bit of the real world if we create a service that we
can't stop leaking then we arrange to restart the *service* periodically
because our customers look on unexpected reboots with great disfavour. They
like their expensive servers to be serving not rebooting.

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