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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
