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.

I this type of thinking is precisely why there is so much bad code with
security vulnerabilities in the wild.

If you cant afford to do it right how on earth can you afford the losses
from a data  breach?



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