Today is debugging day.
One customer is testing airflow issues by letting a large set of jobs run for three hours with the rack doors open, then shutting them and running for another three hours. God, I hope that one works…I’ve got no idea where to go next.
Another is still wrestling with the malevolent “Mordak”, preventer of Information Services.
Still another is totally nice, but so un-clued about the unix command line that I’m just doing everything for him, rather than risk him typing sudo su and whatever comes after.
Totally stalling on even logging into the folks who (and I know this to be true) sit with a stopwatch, hitting up-arrow, return over and over again to find out why their system is “so slow!” Keep in mind that “so slow”, is like a two second lag between a job finishing on the cluster and the results appearing in their browser. We’ve been having this conversation for more than a year now.
Oh yeah, then there’s the fact that we’re supposedly shipping a new version of The Software this afternoon, but the two lead developers (me and Bill) are both nearly incapacitated by allergies and the medicines that they force us to use.
Yeesh.
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