At reddit we would randomly select a process to kill every 10 minutes out of the 10 or so on each machine, just so they would all get a restart in case we didn'

At reddit we would randomly select a process to kill every 10 minutes out of the 10 or so on each machine, just so they would all get a restart in case we didn't do a deployment for a few days. At Amazon they schedule service bounces during code freeze for any service that is known to have memory leaks because it's easier than finding the leak, which isn't usually an issue since it gets deployed so often.