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Never free and periodically crashing by OOM killer is rarely used but can be useful in limited circumstances. There are some shops that arbitrarily kill any wor
by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
Never free and periodically crashing by OOM killer is rarely used but can be useful in limited circumstances. There are some shops that arbitrarily kill any worker over X hours old under the hypothesis that a memory leak is present or probably present.
- littlestymaar 3y ago> Never free AFAIK it's how you get memory safety in missile guidance software: you just have to put enough RAM on the board so it never run out of memory before the end of its flight. Edit: TFA just talks about that in the “never free”
- swiftcoder 3y agoI'm aware of several Java service backends that just disable the GC entirely and take a once-a-day crash as a cost of doing business. As long as you have enough nodes that the crashes aren't correlated, your overall service can maintain decent uptime