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justonceokay • yesterday at 8:29 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

In maintenance, sometimes the dumb solution is the best. The servers that ran amazon.com had a memory leak and were subsequently restarted. This hack continues for years because it was the most cost-effective thing to do.

Put another way, if they didn’t turn it off and on again, I would think less of them because that’s the first thing you should always do unless you know better


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jimmaswell • yesterday at 8:44 PM

I suppose you might want to first rule out a break-in, and if there is one, recover evidence that won't survive a reboot.