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

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Wed, 1 May 2002, 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."

So, did you kill the DBA yet?  I mean, of course, you only get memory leaks
if the RAM is DEFECTIVE.  Pinholes in the casings, of course.

GAh.

--Kurt