Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by jamesfinlayson on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:46PM
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Yeah, a place I worked at years ago had a cron job to restart some critical service at midnight because it leaked memory all day. That was there for years.
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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by Rantenki on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:05AM
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Another real world example: to this day, it's a good idea to limit requests per PHP process using the MaxRequestsPerChild(apache)/max_requests(php-fpm) config option to some sane limit. After that configured number of requests, the PHP worker is terminated and restarted to... "fix" memory leaks. I remember setting that in the late 90s on Apache...
I am happy to no longer use PHP for anything.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by jamesfinlayson on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:30AM
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Oh, it's been a while but I remember that.
I've used PHP in two previous jobs and certainly the stuff that I was in control of had it set to 0 because we made sure we didn't leak memory. Other departments... I'm sure at least one had the limit set to something non-zero.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by ninalanyon on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:33AM
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We had a mail server that ran on an old DEC minicomputer. I rebooted it every six months because it had a slow memory, or possibly resource, leak somewhere.
It was the only thing running on that box so it wasn't a big deal to reboot.