Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-10-13 5:49 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Talk about putting some stuff on tmpfs. O_O I have always wanted to >> copy the tree to tmpfs and run "time emerge -uvaDN world". Just to see >> how fast it will go. lol > > I remember once I worked for an Apple reseller that had this > accounting program that required them to do some kind of > 'reconciliation' every month that required a massive amount of > processing - it took like 36 hours or something ridiculous (literally > almost took all weekend), and he had implemented a rule that someone > had to be there the entire time to baby sit the process - apparently > it wasn't uncommon for there to be an error that would require them to > restart it - and this was on a pretty powerful system at the time. > > Well, one weekend, when we were building a system for a customer with > tons of RAM (for the time) I talked them into a little experiment. The > boss didn't believe me when I told him I could get the reconciliation > processing time down to less than a day (I told him probably just a > few hours, but wasn't sure)... so we made a bet. > > I took a Quadra 900 (or maybe it was a 950), and added a bunch of RAM > - I think we got it up to 128MB or something ridiculous (this was in > about 1992). The accounting DB was about 40MB at the time, but hey, we > had the RAM, so I just loaded it up. > > I created a RAM disk, copied the entire Accounting DB into it, and > started running the reconciliation. The process finished after about > 45 minutes (I was even surprised at that), and while there were no > errors and it said it had completed successfully, the boss was sure > that something had gone wrong. So, he re-ran it the old way on the old > server, and almost 2 days later, when the numbers matched, he just > shook his head and paid me off, muttering about the lost weekends over > the last 5 years he'd been there. He kept that machine around for > running the reconciliation for at least a few months, but then I left, > so no idea how long he kept it for... > >
I remember those days. I quit my computer job just about a year or so before that. I think it was when I got tired of windoze 3.1 reinstalls. That model number sounds familiar to for some reason. ;-) I ordered the mobo. I'm worried that something could happen to this thing and me not have a rig at all. That ain't good. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
