On 02/04/2013 07:31 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: > Oh, and a little off topic here, but some of you all didn't appreciate my old > habit of weekly reboots just to clear out the RAM, etc. a while back.
Please don't think that anybody here was dissing you or anything. It's just that you had the wrong idea for why admins don't like to reboot their machines very often. It's not because of some misguided dick measuring contest, there are real issues with frequent rebooting. Besides the obvious downtime, there are rippling network effects, such as forcing reconvergence of distributed fault-tolerant systems, causing long-term performance issues due to cold caches and plain old hardware failure (on some systems hardware gets reinitialized and restarted at reboot, which can considerably shorten its lifespan). If these don't affect you, then great, but most environments won't tolerate service disruption without very good justification. Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
