From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] some #s In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:39:34 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c3ce170a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, C H Forsyth wrote: > i suppose it's nice when booting is fast during development or on a > mobile device, and it's always good to avoid wasting time (eg, by > probing nonexistent drives) but in a production grid environment you > won't be rebooting that often will you? depends on the "grid" (grid being a very new term for an idea that is at least 25 years old -- see RSEXEC on the early Arpanet on TOPS-10). Yes, in many cases, CPU servers should reboot after each job, in many environments -- not just US Gov't either, industry people can be quite paranoid. So it matters. In other cases, e.g. SETI@home, I guess rebooting your windows box every time it stops would be bad :-) ron