[off-topic] Reboot will fix everything

[William Kenworthy]

Its a value judgement and design decision.  Windows reinitialises during
reboot, so a "quick reboot" will fix things and life goes on.  If you
dont and hours can be wasted tracking down a fault when a reboot would
have the system back online much quicker.

Unix had a different phylosophy, make the system more stable and easy to
fix so it doesnt need to go offline for a reboot.

Which is better? - seems these days with windows being much more stable
better designed there is not much in it, especially as linux is getting
more complex and convoluted in its design (i.e., the /usr and udev
disaster in waiting).  Convergent evolution :(

BillK



On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 16:17 +0800, Bruce Axtens wrote:
> Yes, followed not far behind by "if you can't fix in x minutes,
> reimage to the SOE"
> 
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Kai <vk6ksj at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>         General observation in my workplace which is predominantly
>         Windows environment, when a remote server's been up for a
>         month or so and feedback is that logons and general
>         performance is slow, first thing I hear the tech say is "we'll
>         just give it a reboot, if that doesn't clean things up then
>         we'll look further..."
>         
>         Is that a widespread attitude with Windows servers?
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