Hacker News itself does this. > We restart HN every 5 or 6 days, or it gets slow (memory leaks). [1] pg went into more depth about this somewhere, but I don't

Hacker News itself does this. > We restart HN every 5 or 6 days, or it gets slow (memory leaks). [1] pg went into more depth about this somewhere, but I don't have the link on hand at the moment. Essentially, the software running it is riddled with memory leaks, but it's more time-efficient to simply reboot it every so often than it is to actually go in and fix it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4730251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4730251