If you've got an SMP machine, and your averages are.5 to 1.5, then you've either got too big of a machine for the job, or you should put more stuff on it to utilize it better.
A processor utilized 100% of the time will give you a load average of 1.0. If you've got two processors, you should aim for a load of 2.0 average.
So, good news! You don't have to do any tweaking for performance, unless you have specific issues with the speed of the server. You can probably add more to the server without affecting other processes (unless you've got a lot of I/O going on). You only gave CPU stats, so I am assuming that's what you're concerned about.
Someone suggested that the Manhattan Project go to the United States Treasury and ask for silver.
Of course, this was before somebody suggesting using Uranium and Plutonium. They gave the silver back because it wouldn't blow up. Uranium makes really lousy money on the other hand. Is has a good weight, and it's a bit warm to the touch, giving it a nice feel in your hands. But it tended to cause tumors on the upper thigh, right where trouser's pockets are. So for the treasury and the war department, it was what you'd call a "win-win situation".
Getting bitches about a place to work can be very useful. I'm a contractor, so I change companies quite frequently. More than once I've been taken out to lunch by my new co-workers, and as people do, they started complaining about their jobs. After a while, they realize that they are bitching in front on the new guy. "Oh I guess we're giving you a very bad impression of our company on your first day of work." I always reply "Don't worry. I haven't heard anything new, just the same stuff everyone complains about everywhere. If you had complained about something that I'd never heard before, then I would worry."
if you see Linux and/or IBM in there with it, then get all over it. Don't lose a single win to Linux.
Someone should tell that guy that if you lose, then it's not a win. It makes no sense at all to say that you "lost a win".
Unless, perhaps win means Windows. If their customers lose their win, that means that they REALLY win.
If I become a salesman someday, I'm going to play stupid head tricks with my fellow salesmen. For an experiment, I'm going to see if I can get everyone to say "come on and let's win the FUCK out of it." That would be funny.
I'd pay $100 a month not to have spam free e-mail, but to have a spammer beheaded in public each month right here in my hometown.
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Bah. Jesus himself said "Blessed is he who believes without seeing" when Thomas insisted on evidence.
If that doesn't clearly show that the Bible teaches us NOT to use our senses and mind when we believe, I don't know what does.
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Why do you describe yourself as a Christian? A Christian has X set of beliefs. You obviously have a different set. I think you should refer to the religion in a personal way. Why not describe yourself as an "Anonymous Cowardian"?
I don't know your real name so I used the AC identity.
Go to dice or hotjobs or other popular site. Do a search on "C++" in Austin. You'll find that there are quite a number of positions that have not been filled in weeks asking for device driver writers. Austin is filled with many companies that build hardware that either attaches to a computer, or actually contains an embedded computer.
Probably a dangerous response to give on Slashdot, but if they've got money to burn, typically speaking, they're not going to be as Linuxcentric as the submitter seems to say they are.
"Money to burn" is not the proper way to put it. That implies that they have Gates' bank account. "Adequately and properly funded" might be the right way to put it. If they are working on problems that need a 64 gig address space to solve cleanly, then adequate funding would be enough to buy a machine that would support the research.
Also, these are researchers. Open source usually comes naturally to researchers. After all, they are probably going to try to publish something. Those sort of people would naturally use Linux, not Windows.
Maybe instead of a 32-bit machine they should just use a Turing machine? They could use their brainpower to get it working on that just as easily. A commodore-64 hooked up to a mag-tape reader, with a really long tape could do the job.
(sarchasm off)
I guess my point here is that they are a research institute, and it looks like they are doing some strange things there. The probably *can* afford the machine, and it's probably going to be cheaper to throw hardware at the problem that it will be to hack at the problem to make it computable in awkward hardware.
That was all before Sept. 11th. Now things are considerably tougher. I've been looking for a job here in Austin, and there is seemingly NOTHING available for someone with C++(11 years), C(16 years), Linux(7 years, some kernel internals), UNIX (all types, 15 years), and Java skills (5 years). Every position I have applied for has more than 100 applicants.
So, I'm on a device driver crash course. I must convince *somebody* that I'm worthy. (If you're in Austin and you're reading this AND you are hiring, please send me an e-mail! I'm damn good at what I do.)
Right now, stellar resumes and stellar references won't cut it. You've got to get a skill that nobody else is looking for.
Or, you could just wait a few months for things to clear up. Everyone expects this economic dip to be brief.
No this is not a coy answer. CS is just as fun as it ever was, so something about you has changed. Maybe your interests are changing, and if so, that's good. Find out what you want to do and do it.
On the other hand, losing interest in the things you used to love to do can sometimes mean that you're depressed.
I don't know you. I don't know your situation. But you should seriously evaluate the possiblity that you might just be depressed, and with the right help all the old things will start looking new again.
I know this isn't exactly what you are asking, but you should get a TiVo, if you already don't have one. It has a very nice display of programming that is far superior to any that I've seen on a cable box.
Paintball today is all about how much ammo you can get downrange, not about skill, stealth or cunning
I know what you mean. The last time I played, two players were sitting behind some logs with some sandbags and machine paint guns. We lost over 20,000 of our teammates before we realized that these frontal assaults were stupid. Instead we've dug miles of trenches and we're just sitting here. Both sides have started filling balloons with paint and using giant slingshots to try to chase us out of our trenches. The constant barrage of paint balloons is driving some guys nuts. One guy was literally rolling around in paint balls, hoping to be disqualified from the game. One of the smarter guys on my team is trying to rig up some cardboard around a bicycle. He says that we'll be protected from the paint bullets inside the thing, and we'll be able to roll right up to the machine guns and win the game. As for myself, I just sent an e-mail to another team (Team USA) inviting them to join up with us. So far they've only given us some extra paintballs, but I'm hoping that they send over a few players to help us out.
Reading the UNIX family tree was like a walk down memory lane. Some people can hear a song and remember what it was like way back then, when we were young and crazy. I found myself reading the chart, going down the UNIX genealogy, drifting back to the AT&T 3B2 in the basement of Holmes Hall (Michigan State) back in 1986. Or I found myself in an apartment in the summer of 1993, with Linux 0.97pl4 installed on my 386sx. Or I found myself arguing with my boss that this Linux thing would really take off someday. Of course, it did, and my boss was an idiot. (You know who you are!) That was Linux 1.0.
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Damned idiot moderators, this was a perfectly good comment, with a good suggestion, AND a truthful statement about Python and Java.
Moderation is not the place to put across your personal opinions.
Can't do much science when people can't safely work in office buildings or post offices.
War is immoral, and spending outrageous amounts of money on war is immoral, but it is even more immoral to ignore evil.
Hope THAT puts things into perspective.
If you've got an SMP machine, and your averages are .5 to 1.5, then you've either got too big of a machine for the job, or you should put more stuff on it to utilize it better.
A processor utilized 100% of the time will give you a load average of 1.0. If you've got two processors, you should aim for a load of 2.0 average.
So, good news! You don't have to do any tweaking for performance, unless you have specific issues with the speed of the server. You can probably add more to the server without affecting other processes (unless you've got a lot of I/O going on). You only gave CPU stats, so I am assuming that's what you're concerned about.
How about a large pile of cash, given to me in small lumps every two weeks?
Yes, I'm looking for a job. I will write your emulator for money.
Someone suggested that the Manhattan Project go to the United States Treasury and ask for silver.
Of course, this was before somebody suggesting using Uranium and Plutonium. They gave the silver back because it wouldn't blow up. Uranium makes really lousy money on the other hand. Is has a good weight, and it's a bit warm to the touch, giving it a nice feel in your hands. But it tended to cause tumors on the upper thigh, right where trouser's pockets are. So for the treasury and the war department, it was what you'd call a "win-win situation".
Getting bitches about a place to work can be very useful. I'm a contractor, so I change companies quite frequently. More than once I've been taken out to lunch by my new co-workers, and as people do, they started complaining about their jobs. After a while, they realize that they are bitching in front on the new guy. "Oh I guess we're giving you a very bad impression of our company on your first day of work." I always reply "Don't worry. I haven't heard anything new, just the same stuff everyone complains about everywhere. If you had complained about something that I'd never heard before, then I would worry."
From the article:
if you see Linux and/or IBM in there with it, then get all over it. Don't lose a single win to Linux.
Someone should tell that guy that if you lose, then it's not a win. It makes no sense at all to say that you "lost a win".
Unless, perhaps win means Windows. If their customers lose their win, that means that they REALLY win.
If I become a salesman someday, I'm going to play stupid head tricks with my fellow salesmen. For an experiment, I'm going to see if I can get everyone to say "come on and let's win the FUCK out of it." That would be funny.
I'd pay $100 a month not to have spam free e-mail, but to have a spammer beheaded in public each month right here in my hometown.
Bah. Jesus himself said "Blessed is he who believes without seeing" when Thomas insisted on evidence.
If that doesn't clearly show that the Bible teaches us NOT to use our senses and mind when we believe, I don't know what does.
Why do you describe yourself as a Christian? A Christian has X set of beliefs. You obviously have a different set. I think you should refer to the religion in a personal way. Why not describe yourself as an "Anonymous Cowardian"?
I don't know your real name so I used the AC identity.
It's a happy day when the business needs of your organization ARE your technical skills.
Go to dice or hotjobs or other popular site. Do a search on "C++" in Austin. You'll find that there are quite a number of positions that have not been filled in weeks asking for device driver writers. Austin is filled with many companies that build hardware that either attaches to a computer, or actually contains an embedded computer.
I mean 35 trillion 4K ram chips.
2.197265625 trillion Commodore 64's.
98.7881981 billion 1.44 meg floppy disks.
1.44 million 100 gig hard drives
or
3.5 trillion 4K ram chips (remember those?)
Probably a dangerous response to give on Slashdot, but if they've got money to burn, typically speaking, they're not going to be as Linuxcentric as the submitter seems to say they are.
"Money to burn" is not the proper way to put it. That implies that they have Gates' bank account. "Adequately and properly funded" might be the right way to put it. If they are working on problems that need a 64 gig address space to solve cleanly, then adequate funding would be enough to buy a machine that would support the research.
Also, these are researchers. Open source usually comes naturally to researchers. After all, they are probably going to try to publish something. Those sort of people would naturally use Linux, not Windows.
IBM is already running 15000+ linux servers (seperate kernel and all) on a single iron ..
They're running that on an iron? My god, technology is moving so fast now. They've skipped right over the toaster.
(sarchasm on)
Maybe instead of a 32-bit machine they should just use a Turing machine? They could use their brainpower to get it working on that just as easily. A commodore-64 hooked up to a mag-tape reader, with a really long tape could do the job.
(sarchasm off)
I guess my point here is that they are a research institute, and it looks like they are doing some strange things there. The probably *can* afford the machine, and it's probably going to be cheaper to throw hardware at the problem that it will be to hack at the problem to make it computable in awkward hardware.
That was all before Sept. 11th. Now things are considerably tougher. I've been looking for a job here in Austin, and there is seemingly NOTHING available for someone with C++(11 years), C(16 years), Linux(7 years, some kernel internals), UNIX (all types, 15 years), and Java skills (5 years). Every position I have applied for has more than 100 applicants.
So, I'm on a device driver crash course. I must convince *somebody* that I'm worthy. (If you're in Austin and you're reading this AND you are hiring, please send me an e-mail! I'm damn good at what I do.)
Right now, stellar resumes and stellar references won't cut it. You've got to get a skill that nobody else is looking for.
Or, you could just wait a few months for things to clear up. Everyone expects this economic dip to be brief.
No this is not a coy answer. CS is just as fun as it ever was, so something about you has changed. Maybe your interests are changing, and if so, that's good. Find out what you want to do and do it.
On the other hand, losing interest in the things you used to love to do can sometimes mean that you're depressed.
I don't know you. I don't know your situation. But you should seriously evaluate the possiblity that you might just be depressed, and with the right help all the old things will start looking new again.
I think you are mistaken. The citizens of the Antarctic prefer to be called Antarticanesians.
I know this isn't exactly what you are asking, but you should get a TiVo, if you already don't have one. It has a very nice display of programming that is far superior to any that I've seen on a cable box.
Paintball today is all about how much ammo you can get downrange, not about skill, stealth or cunning
I know what you mean. The last time I played, two players were sitting behind some logs with some sandbags and machine paint guns. We lost over 20,000 of our teammates before we realized that these frontal assaults were stupid. Instead we've dug miles of trenches and we're just sitting here. Both sides have started filling balloons with paint and using giant slingshots to try to chase us out of our trenches. The constant barrage of paint balloons is driving some guys nuts. One guy was literally rolling around in paint balls, hoping to be disqualified from the game. One of the smarter guys on my team is trying to rig up some cardboard around a bicycle. He says that we'll be protected from the paint bullets inside the thing, and we'll be able to roll right up to the machine guns and win the game. As for myself, I just sent an e-mail to another team (Team USA) inviting them to join up with us. So far they've only given us some extra paintballs, but I'm hoping that they send over a few players to help us out.
Reading the UNIX family tree was like a walk down memory lane. Some people can hear a song and remember what it was like way back then, when we were young and crazy. I found myself reading the chart, going down the UNIX genealogy, drifting back to the AT&T 3B2 in the basement of Holmes Hall (Michigan State) back in 1986. Or I found myself in an apartment in the summer of 1993, with Linux 0.97pl4 installed on my 386sx. Or I found myself arguing with my boss that this Linux thing would really take off someday. Of course, it did, and my boss was an idiot. (You know who you are!) That was Linux 1.0.
Wow, that was fun.
He sent me an e-mail that said "I got your check! hahahahahahahaha!"
Does that count?
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