• camr_on@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    One of my friends had a production machine go down bc someone apparently left vim running on a log file all night. Took up over 300gb of ram by the morning. Apparently they got rid of session timeouts because devs were sick of having to log back in

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      2 months ago

      Using memory limited users seems like it would be a good idea. Then again, that might be easier said than done on an existing system.