I work at a major tech company and most times I go to IT, they tell us to restart our computer. Why is this a necessary process to maintain a normal operating experience?
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My favorite way to explain this is imagine a computer is an office.
Your hard drive is a bookshelf, your ram is a desk, and the CPU is an office worker.
When the worker needs information, the go to the bookshelf and grab a book with some information and maybe read it or edit it but it’s on their desk. And theyre actively using it.
The desk is only so big so only so many books can be on the desk at any given time. (The amount of ram you have) so as the desk piles up, the worker has to put books back to make room for new books.
As the desk gets more cluttered and the worker makes more notes and edits, they start to get a bunch of books on their desk and lots of things to keep track of.
Here’s the kicker, most of those books are alive and are doing their own work and may or may not be talking to each other or the worker to let them know. Things can get real chaotic as the books do their own thing and the worker is trying to keep tabs on them. Some go rouge and do whatever they want.
A reboot basically tells the computer to clean off the desk, put the books on the shelf and start fresh tomorrow. Everything gets put to bed and starts fresh.
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