On 02/04/2013 08:02 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: > On Feb 4, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > >> 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. > > I knew I was taking a chance when I suggested it; but I thought it might > buy the man some time to deal with it more at his convenience.
I understand the sentiment and I get your logic, but it has unfortunately not worked in my instances (which is why I spoke up). Suppressing problems is rarely an answer. > I can't even fathom what you high-powered system admins do these days. What do you mean? > We really need somebody competent in the whole network and sys admin > role(s) here... Well, they can be had on the jobs market, but they do cost a bit. If you are only setting up some low-volume services on only a handful of servers, you may want to consider IT outsourcing and/or migrating to cloud services where possible. Except for that LTSP thing you described, e-mail and web services can be purchased at very reasonable prices. Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
