Today is debugging day.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Another is still wrestling with the malevolent “Mordak”, preventer of Information Services.<\/p>\n
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 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is debugging day.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\nsudo su<\/code> and whatever comes after.<\/p>\n