Zoom asks for permission to restart Mac weekly
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> JVM GC engineer here. We have not yet implemented large page support on macOS (yet) because fragmentarion was so bad you had to reboot all the time in order to use them.
It's supposed to be on 24/7 and I assume they just found that it's the easiest to reboot mac OS on a cronjob every Sunday to keep the system stable, not like it's necessarily made for that job.
I don't think there's ever been a Mac made for embedded use, in the case of the Facebook one, they had the money to put in the engineering to build a custom solution. I often see iPads running zoom rooms as well though.
[1]: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1310377930661351424?s=19
Actually...
The trashcan, which often power mac virtualization farms: https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-ma...
The rack-mounted xserve, which is old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve
Maybe not "embedded," but not end user devices.
And - well before this request from ZoomPrensence.app - we were weekly rebooting these mac minis via launch daemon. Would continue to do so no matter the specific meeting app - macOS updates often require a reboot.