Steve Litt [2015-11-04 15:37]:

> Now of course, if I'm troubleshooting a system serving hotel
> reservations to millions of people, I'd reboot only as the very last
> resort. I'd build a parallel system and exploit the differences or
> similarities rather than rebooting. But if it's my own desktop or a
> server that's already down for repair, often rebooting decreases
> Mean Time To Repair.

In such a case you wouldn't upgrade the system at all, unless there were
known insecurities.
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Hilsen Harald