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You don't even have to go as far from your desk as a remote server to see this happening, or open a log file.

The whole concept of addressing issues on your computer by rebooting it is 'normalization of deviance', and yet IT people in support will rant and rave about how it's the fault of users for not rebooting their systems whenever they get complaints of performance problems or instability from users with high uptimes— as if it's not the IT department itself which has loaded that user's computer to the gills with software that's full of memory leaks, litters the disk with files, etc.