On 24/10/2020 12:50, Martin Gregorie 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.
>
> But seeing that the code is leaky is dead simple: just run top and look
> at the display every so often.
>

Yes, it is often dead simple to see that code doesn't work, however
fixing it....

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