And lo on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:26:33 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> Wouldn't that suggest that bunging some more memory in would only  
>> increase the time it took to fill up?
>
> "Had to restart the system to free up resources" could mean "we're  
> thrashing because we have 5000 connections open to the server at once,  
> because they're not closing, because we're thrashing." For example.

True, but that still may be simply postponing the problem; the article  
mentions the increasing need for restarting.

> But sure, if there's a leak, you'll eventually fill up memory. If 2 gig  
> changes it from being "restart the server once every day" to "restart  
> the server more rarely than we upgrade the software anyway", it's a win.

Indeed from a business perspective if buying more memory is cheaper then  
fixing the underlying problems then that's the 'best' solution. I just  
wouldn't place this article in the pure WTF category.

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Phil Cook

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