[geeks] what do you do when you have a memory leak?

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 07:12 , alex j avriette wrote:

> So. Our DBA comes to one of our Sysadmins today (unfortunately not me, 
> I wish I could have been there), and says "$box is using too much ram 
> right now and Oracle says it thinks there is a memory leak. Clearly the 
> ram in that box is bad, and we should take down $otherproductionserver 
> and replace the ram in $box with the other ram."

Tell DBA: "$DBA is using up too much oxygen.  Please have him stop 
breathing for a few hours until the supply levels out."

-Pete