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[98.95.149.116]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r1sm102319909yhf.17.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 14 Oct 2013 05:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <525BDED8.8050403@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:08:56 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 SeaMonkey/2.21 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: OT - RAM disks - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message References: <524EE833.8030905@gmail.com> <5251AE0B.4050407@gmail.com> <525A9177.50305@gmail.com> <201310131831.09468.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <525B1575.3070209@gmail.com> <525BCF97.3020204@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <525BCF97.3020204@libertytrek.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 279265a7-c960-4852-98ad-487a417ea375 X-Archives-Hash: fdb28003149e3d3e09bc379bac85381d Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-10-13 5:49 PM, Dale 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!