Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:16:21 +0000 From: Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Response to Meltdown and Spectre Message-ID: <f0fde258496be03a339594ad59e1f961@roundcube.fjl.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1802051958470.48272@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <CY1PR01MB12472D916F78A638731ECCE68FFB0@CY1PR01MB1247.prod.exchangelabs.com> <23154.11945.856955.523027@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <5A726B60.7040606@gmail.com> <92120E50-19A7-4A44-90DF-505243D77259@kreme.com> <CA%2BtpaK2o1nbY2W2JVRtogN=P2VM9rag_dodK=GtLWgKwNsYZkg@mail.gmail.com> <F395799E-2C94-47E9-AA1C-5CB075C50076@kreme.com> <044e62f7-69ca-71fe-34a8-5c5cafc06f08@yahoo.com> <slrnp7bpa3.2k8.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <0520dd84-c00c-fbf2-da1c-f6ff4c63739d@yahoo.com> <20180203224612.GA10517@milliways.localdomain> <51178.108.68.160.114.1517699531.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <slrnp7cmpn.5vo.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <53029.108.68.160.114.1517707316.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20180205143720.d4d98011.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1802051958470.48272@tripel.monochrome.org>
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On 2018-02-06 01:06, Chris Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Polytropon wrote:
>
>> ...On the other hand, I know many businesses where rebooting servers
>> is quite common ("Windows"-based installations, of course), which if
>> often due to software problems, wrongly configured hardware, broken
>> hardware, or missing technical skills of the "professional
>> consultants" and "solution experts"...
>
> Off topic here, for a change. At the place where I worked during the
> year 2000, a sysadmin told me it was standard that they would reboot
> the servers (Windows monoculture, even back then) every Friday after
> close of business. When I asked him why, he said it was "best
> practice." And if anything went wrong, they had the weekend to fix it
> :^\
Are you seriously saying that their Windows servers stayed up ALL WEEK
without a reboot?
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