Exercise 1: Why a Restart Can Make a Recurring Problem Harder to Solve — Possible Solution ==================================================================== WHAT A RESTART ACTUALLY DOES TO THE EVIDENCE ------------------------------ Per this chapter's warn-box, "once a struggling process restarts, its accumulated memory usage resets, its open file handles close, and its current CPU activity vanishes - the live picture of what was actually going wrong is gone the moment the process exits." The restart doesn't just stop the symptom, it erases the specific state that would have explained the symptom's actual cause. WHY "IT WORKED" ISN'T THE SAME AS "I KNOW WHY" ------------------------------ Per this chapter, "a restart is tempting precisely because it often works... But 'it worked' and 'I know why it was happening' are different things entirely." A restart can relieve the symptom without ever revealing which of the four resource categories (or something else entirely) actually caused it. WHY THIS MAKES A RECURRING PROBLEM HARDER, NOT EASIER ------------------------------ Per this chapter, "if the same problem returns tomorrow, you'll be starting from zero again." Without having captured evidence the first time, each recurrence has to be diagnosed from scratch, rather than building on what was learned last time - the opposite of what checking first would have provided. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ It explains specifically what evidence a restart destroys (memory state, open file handles, current CPU activity), and connects that loss to why a recurring problem becomes harder to diagnose over time rather than just asserting that restarting is "bad practice" without justification.