Troubleshoot a Worker Service That Keeps Disappearing
A systemd-managed worker process starts cleanly, prints a few heartbeat lines, then silently vanishes - over and over again. Diagnose why the process keeps dying and stabilize the service.
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A systemd-managed worker process starts cleanly, prints a few heartbeat lines, then silently vanishes - over and over again. Diagnose why the process keeps dying and stabilize the service.
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This challenge focuses on debugging memory usage issues in a Go application deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. The goal is to ensure the application can handle moderate traffic without crashing, even when it runs with significantly constrained memory resources.