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Why Not To Shout At Your Disk Array

Posted by timothy on from the that's-what-your-subordinates-are-for dept.

Brendan Gregg of Sun's Fishworks lab has an interesting video demo up at YouTube demonstrating just how bad vibes, if expressed with sufficient volume in front of a rack full of disks, can cause a spike in disk latency. White noise, evidently, doesn't do them much harm. (Maybe they just feel awkward to get yelled at on camera.)

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  1. That explains a lot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I always thought niggers' computers were slow because they didn't know how to use 'em but now I guess it has a lot more to do with the fact that niggers are loudly hootin' and hollerin' all the damn time.

    I would never hire an overgrown chimpanzee to work with me at my Pixar rendering farm, that's for damn sure. Good CGI depends on Maya, not on mayates .