[michaelt]

> The question is, is it necessary? Many systems can live with processes performing a little bit poorly for some minutes and I wouldn't do it.

The outage ain't resolved until things are back to operating normally.

If things aren't back to 100% healthy, could be I didn't truly find the root cause of the problem - in which case I'll probably be woken up again in 30 minutes when the problem comes back.

[whatevaa]

Desktops are not servers. There could be no problem, just some hungry legitimate program (or vm).