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> Rebooting is often the first thing we do to fix stuff.

Depends on the environment. That used to be the common approach for windows, less so for *nix systems.



Linux is pretty good now about not having the whole system lock up, but restarting programs still seems to be the #1 troubleshooting action.


Yeah. There's a large difference with restarting an individual application and the whole system though. Sometimes several minutes difference. ;)




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