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On 10/8/2014 10:28 AM, bryanjugglercryptographer@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid 
wrote:

> That doesn't mean to tell a human administrator to regularly restart the server. It's programmatic and it's a reasonably simple and well-established design pattern.

I'd call it more a compensation technique than a design pattern*.  You 
know, like rebooting windows routinely.  :)

Emile


*) Alternately known as a workaround or kludge.