I'm just going to stop talking about why rebooting helps for now. I see benefits. Both in helpdesk and my personal coding, it's the first step in any troubleshooting I personally take and suggest. The developers of mafia disagree that it should be a part of troubleshooting. That means that I should stop suggesting it to users of mafia. I will attempt to do so and no longer suggest restarting to others as a standard part of troubleshooting problems.
Much like with the last time I was aggravating Veracity, it doesn't benefit to continue trying to show why I believe there's a reason for it when the developers disagree, which was when I stopped talking there. This post serves as notice so that developers hopefully don't need to ask me to post more examples which will only aggravate and frustrate. I hope this is less annoying.
I agree that restarting can help with memory issues. Mentioning memory issues was pointless in this thread though. If mafia is wrong about the state of something (which has zero to do with memory usage), then figuring out what mafia is wrong about and making a bug report would be the thing to do, with restarting mafia available as a band-aid fix in the mean time.