That's a valid point; mention that one should not reboot until proven otherwise.

Same idea for services restart; don't do it unless absolutely needed. While it may be doing the trick in some cases it can also generate its own set of new false symptoms.

Take the example of :

- mysql is "slow"

- let's restart ! ...

- mysql init script has been puking dots (.) for the last 30 minutes on shutdown

- let's kill -9 it ! ...

- mysql db is corrupted ! Hurray!