[off-topic] Reboot will fix everything

[Kai]

Yeah, a lot of the time a 30 minute reimage is definately easier than spending hours trying to work out what's actually wrong, specially since human factors (there's the pilot side of me coming out) says that anything which involves humans can, and often will, have random glitches that no one will ever figure out.

Other than "reboot fixes everything", one of the other main observations in my working environment is "after power failure/network being restored, three reboots, spaced about 10 minutes apart, should bring everything back". I've never seen any other environment where it's common practice to consciously reboot a server three times to get all services working. Things take time to propagate over a large scale WAN and maybe restarting a service might be necessary but I dunno why three complete reboots is a regular thing...

About patch management, I haven't seen how ours is managed yet. I can understand if major things like kernerl updates, or in Windows case, key dll's, etc need to be re-read, and/or re-registered, a restart is needed, but for general patching I'd think only the relevant services need restarting to process the changes.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Axtens" <bruce.axtens at gmail.com>
To: "List for non-Linux-related discussions between PLUG members" <off-topic at plug.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, 14 March, 2012 6:17:26 PM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
Subject: Re: [off-topic] Reboot will fix everything


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? 
_______________________________________________ 
Off-topic mailing list 
Off-topic at plug.org.au 
http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/off-topic 


_______________________________________________
Off-topic mailing list
Off-topic at plug.org.au
http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/off-topic