From: John Beckett 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in message
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> You're going to love this one: our current database system's clients have a
> busy loop whenever they're waiting on the server, and they yank their own
> priority up for that time, so you can't really do anything else with any
> other app on that computer until the client receives whatever it is waiting
> for.
> ...

It's pathetic, isn't it?

It reminds me of that classic programming joke:

  A really great programmer can write Fortran code
  in *any* language.

Applied to apps, we see that a stupid programmer can foul up any system!

John

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