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How Docker was born (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 39 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 6 days 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.

[–] expr@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yet another reason why :set autoread kinda sucks and shouldn't be used.

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Got a love 'watch tail'