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

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at 10:12:13 (-0400), alex j avriette wrote: ]
> Subject: [geeks] what do you do when you have a memory leak?
>
> 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."
> 
> *mutter*

double-*mutter*!

If Oracle thinks there's a bloody memory leak in their stupid $DB they
why the hell don't they find and fix it!

Otherwise put the database users on notice that there will be a rotating
schedule of outages due to buggy commercial software that's
unsupportable and restart the database via cron or something.

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								Greg A. Woods

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