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by tgdavies 6590 days ago
One of my colleagues was recently welcomed back fromholiday with this addition to his cron file:

0,20,40 * * * * /usr/bin/killall -9 java

Or is that going too far?

2 comments

You automatically get rid of their memory leaks every 20 minutes. That's a service, not a prank.
Heck, I should add that to mine.