The return of BOFH for the new millenium ............ On 04/07/07, Fritz Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The title says it all; I've been greatly amused today reading his column > in the java performance tuning newsletter... but can it possibly be real? It > reads like a combination of Dilbert and Adrian Mole's diary.. for instance: > > June 6. It's not a myth. Well not any more. Did you ever hear about the > enterprise system which the developers put in pauses so that they could take > them out later to make the system faster? Actually, the way I hear it is > that they anticipated that as the system scaled up, the load would increase > and slow the system down, so they put in configurable sleep statements that > slowed the system when they first deployed. Then, when it started getting > loaded, they wound down the sleeps. Apparently, they kept the system running > at roughly the same performance even after it went to full company-wide > release. I always thought this was yet another urban myth. But now I've > implemented the myth. Yes, my code tweaks way exceeded my 50% target > speedup, so I added in sleep code. That way, next time I come to tune, I can > either speedup the system real quick (and look so good), or take my time and > doodle. Had to put the sleeps into the monitoring code so that no one else > finds them, but that's good, one nice central place. > > ..that's from one of his earlier entries. I guess I should be thankful > that this doesn't sound like anything I've encountered yet. > > Does anyone else know anything more about this guy? > > Fritz > > > >
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