[off-topic] Reboot will fix everything

[Leon Wright]

Yep common solution these days. Irritates my need to know why it's
happening. Also a good percentage of our infrastructure runs on linux, but
users will quite often come back with "can't you just reboot it" when on
the rare occasion something is wrong and we are in the middle of solving
the problem.

In my experience, especially with proprietary apps running on top (poor
logging etc) our windows servers will go wonky occasionally and a reboot
brings them back to running "normally". Where as our linux boxen, on the
rare occasion that there is a problem a reboot generally won't solve it,
you go check out the logs, search for a solution, solve it and get back to
enjoying life as a linux sys admin. (I still have to wear both caps :( ).

Leon
--
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'

# cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats
Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!


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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