Re:Drgn: How the Linux kernel team at Facebook debugs the ke...
by ajuc on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:02AM
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If we had memory leaks caused by drivers we would have to debug them all the way as well, restarting the device every few hours wasn't an option.
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Re:Drgn: How the Linux kernel team at Facebook debugs the ke...
by onion2k on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:43AM
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Exactly. We all choose the most cost effective solution - it's a balance between engineering effort and how effective the fix is. In the case of a touch screen, rebootingit every few hours isn't as effective as debugging the underlying cause. In the case of a web server having a memory leak, killing a pod and bringing up a new one automatically when it gets unhealthy definitely is. It's not surprising that each dev team settles on different solutions to each problem.