Memory Leak Causes Disruption In Comcast Internet Service
Market Watch
April 19, 2005
A memory leak caused a disruption that inconvenienced some of Comcast's 7 million high-speed Internet customers nationwide. The problem occurred sporadically for roughly a weeklong period ending Wednesday.
Engineers have fixed the problem, which occurred in the software that enables customers to call up Web pages. [...] Comcast engineers say data that normally would be discarded remained in the system. It took up space, or memory, that should have been made available for new Web page transactions
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