[OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

[DormitionSkete@hotmail.com]

On Feb 4, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:

> On 02/04/2013 07:31 PM, DormitionSkete at 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
> 
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It's ok, Saso.  No problem.  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 can't even fathom what you high-powered system admins do these days.  And my networking knowledge is so abysmal, it's unbelievable.  We really need somebody competent in the whole network and sys admin role(s) here...

Thanks, though.  

No problem.