Talk:Sawtooth wave

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[edit] Relevance to Wikipedia

A plot of RAM usage of the Wikipedia web servers is http://wikimedia.org/stats/live/org.wikimedia.browne.squid.cache.ram.usage.html in the shape of a sawtooth wave]: Memory leaks cause memory use to increase linearly until reboot, at which point it falls to minimum. When this repeats a sawtooth wave is produced.

doesn't seem to happen anymore.
I moved this to talk since it interested me (it doesn't belong in the article regardless, being an example of self-reference). Hyacinth 00:44, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)


added a more general formula, which matches the illustration at the bottom teadrinker 15:00, 28 March 2006 (UTC)