How have OS not figured out how to properly manage memory yet? We got this fucking issue at work with this small vendor, and we're locked into their garbage-ware. I'm on the Linux team. We actually look at the OS when the program is screwing up, because maybe the OS was causing the problem. 99% of the time when this situation happens, we can lift the hood and determine that, no, your program just sucks. This was a fun one though. It was a phantom memory leak. We got the OOM killer kicking off when top's not reporting any processes using much memory. So let's look at lsof. Oh hey, your app is deleting thousands of files and leaving them open? Poor memory management is the bane of my career, right there with SJWs.