[shepardrtc]

IIS Server had/has a memory leak in worker threads that many years ago always forced us to restart the server every few days. Starting in 6.0, they added worker thread recycling and made it a mandatory to choose a time period for every thread to be recycled. Why fix the error when you can just restart the service?

[djbusby]

Apache prefork had that since forever. Seems just a garbage collect type pattern.

[mst]

For old-school mod_perl apps setting MaxRequestsPerChild was often a much better ROI than actually finding and fixing the leaks.

Speaking as somebody who's done over a decade of large scale OO applications perl and is actually really good at finding and fixing the leaks, this has often been intellectually aggravating but every time I've set that option instead I rewarded myself with a glass of bourbon for picking the pragmatic choice and then went back to adding (non-leaky) features that were far more useful to the company in question than cleaning up the older code would've been.

[shepardrtc]

It's not a bug, it's a pattern.

Seriously though, IIS 5.0 had no worker recycling. There was no method to fix the issue. Threads would eat up GB's of memory until you killed them.

[whimsicalism]

I doubt they use IIS

[throwra620]

MSer here, yes we do… for some things

[prepend]

For GitHub? It seems unbelievable that they would use IIS pre-purchase and why in the world would you mix in a second web server for post-purchase enhancements.

[Yuioup]

Why trade an open source solution with third rate garbage that is called IIS which runs on a sub-par desktop OS called Windows. I thought that Github was supposed to be independant.

[whimsicalism]

If GH is around the same level of integration with Microsoft as my employer, which is another Microsoft acquisition, I don't really believe you have a ton of insight into GH processes.

[edgyquant]

I dated a girl at GitHub for awhile last year who said they weren’t even completely off of AWS yet and she liked how they didn’t seem like working for Microsoft. Maybe this has changed though.