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Philip Pemberton

Thu, Jan 7, 2010 9:41 PM

Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:

Now, standing in line for 7 hours at some government office where there is a
cellphone ban, only to be told that you have been standing in the wrong
line: That is a waste of time, unless the value of the service is pretty
darn high (e.g. Keeping you out of prison or something)

Ho-ho-, it's fun dealing with government agencies...

"Sir, you've been standing in the wrong line. You need Line
2B-XZ342/A-alpha, which is over there by the payphone."
"But your colleague said I needed to stand in this..."
"I cannot comment on my colleague's actions. Go stand in line
2B-XZ342/A-alpha, or you may feel free to leave and return another day."

And you get to the end of that line, and get...
"Sir, we're closing. Come back tomorrow, when we'll be open 10:30AM to 3PM."

(why 10:30 to 3? because 9 to 5 would be too easy)

And when you eventually get to the front of the right line...

"You need form KL6/PM-gamma-2-1-slash-four-beta-two version 1.08c, this
is form KL6/PM-gamma-2-1-slash-four-beta-two version 1.08b."

Mmm, red tape...

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Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > Now, standing in line for 7 hours at some government office where there is a > cellphone ban, only to be told that you have been standing in the wrong > line: *That* is a waste of time, unless the value of the service is pretty > darn high (e.g. Keeping you out of prison or something) Ho-ho-, it's fun dealing with government agencies... "Sir, you've been standing in the wrong line. You need Line 2B-XZ342/A-alpha, which is over there by the payphone." "But your colleague said I needed to stand in this..." "I cannot comment on my colleague's actions. Go stand in line 2B-XZ342/A-alpha, or you may feel free to leave and return another day." And you get to the end of *that* line, and get... "Sir, we're closing. Come back tomorrow, when we'll be open 10:30AM to 3PM." (why 10:30 to 3? because 9 to 5 would be too easy) And when you eventually get to the front of the right line... "You need form KL6/PM-gamma-2-1-slash-four-beta-two version 1.08c, this is form KL6/PM-gamma-2-1-slash-four-beta-two version 1.08b." Mmm, red tape... -- Phil. lists@philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/

JB

J.D. Bakker

Thu, Jan 7, 2010 9:48 PM

At 13:09 -0800 07-01-2010, David Martindale wrote:

[snip war story]
Lots of people started using it, and within a very short time the Goggle
Earth server traffic was ten times larger than the largest estimate of
what the load would be.

What, like MS Terraserver a decade earlier?

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sysadmin.recovery/msg/a5995bdb92449c9b

JD 'history repeats on itself' B.

In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- RFC 1925, "Fundamental Truths of Networking"

At 13:09 -0800 07-01-2010, David Martindale wrote: >[snip war story] >Lots of people started using it, and within a very short time the Goggle >Earth server traffic was *ten times larger than the largest estimate* of >what the load would be. What, like MS Terraserver a decade earlier? <http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sysadmin.recovery/msg/a5995bdb92449c9b> JD 'history repeats on itself' B. -- In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- RFC 1925, "Fundamental Truths of Networking"

SR

Steve Rooke

Fri, Jan 8, 2010 8:18 AM

2010/1/8 Poul-Henning Kamp phk@phk.freebsd.dk:

In message 4B4603E5.4050200@rubidium.dyndns.org, Magnus Danielson writes:

john.foege@gmail.com wrote:

Now, I'm not sure what kind of testing they did, [...]

What better test of server performance as a ten-fold increase in load?

And at only $100.000 - undoubtedly a lot extra sales, they get the
testing for cheap.

Best way to performance test an ecommerce site I've seen.

Sounds like it failed the test to me, unless they planned it that way.

Steve Rooke

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2010/1/8 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>: > In message <4B4603E5.4050200@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes: >>john.foege@gmail.com wrote: >>> Now, I'm not sure what kind of testing they did, [...] >> >>What better test of server performance as a ten-fold increase in load? > > And at only $100.000 - undoubtedly a lot extra sales, they get the > testing for cheap. > > Best way to performance test an ecommerce site I've seen. Sounds like it failed the test to me, unless they planned it that way. Steve Rooke > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD A man with one clock knows what time it is; A man with two clocks is never quite sure.

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