On 24/10/2020 13:07, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 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.
>
Very good point



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