I know that Sun Microsystems pays their HARDWARE support people at the rate of 1/4 time for being on-call after hours. The guys typically have 123 on-call hours per week (15 hrs/ weekday + 48 hours over the weekend). Thus for a week of pager standby time they get an additional 30.75 hours pay. That's if they do not actually have to go on-site for a call - if they have to go out, they get the typical 1.5X bump (2X on sundays and holidays).
In my opinion, for the alleged prestige of being 'on salary' workers give away far too much of their lives. These hardware support guys are non-exempt hourly employees.
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I know that Sun Microsystems pays their HARDWARE support people at the rate of 1/4 time for being on-call after hours. The guys typically have 123 on-call hours per week (15 hrs/ weekday + 48 hours over the weekend). Thus for a week of pager standby time they get an additional 30.75 hours pay. That's if they do not actually have to go on-site for a call - if they have to go out, they get the typical 1.5X bump (2X on sundays and holidays).
In my opinion, for the alleged prestige of being 'on salary' workers give away far too much of their lives. These hardware support guys are non-exempt hourly employees.
Not one of your SPARC5s was using this CPU module.
Lame indeed.
THIS problem isn't RAM related, either. It's the ecache on the CPU module that's causing the problem. It isn't DIMMs or DIMMs that are causing this.