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qznc on Oct 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Raspberry Pi now with 512MB RAM

To add another point: For programs which only run for a certain time (not servers) the freeing can be delayed until the end and then skipped.

eru on Oct 15, 2012 [–]

If your write your server the right way, you can just kill and restart the process once the memory's full.

Evbn on Oct 16, 2012 | [–]

Amazon did this for years to work around memory leaks.

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