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[โ€“] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Restarting a system gets it into a known state making debugging easier.

And what are you going to debug when the problem does not occur and you do not know how to reproduce it? There is a lot of information you can only gather while the problem occurs. And yes, this is from the software developer and sysadmin perspective, not from the layman perspective. I would rather spend a little bit more time on the problem now instead of having it occur again and again without getting any closer to an actual solution.

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 5 months ago

The first piece of information you get is : does the problem persist beyond a restart

Every investigation takes time, I'm glad that your able to satisfy yourself with in depth investigations when necessary.

For non-life critical systems, the average protocol is to restart and see if it persists and only debug if the issue becomes problematic